Saraba 10 – The Music Issue

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In this issue:

Making Music: Publishers’ Note
My Music Timeline: Joseph Omotayo 
Sweet Notes: Agatha Aduro
The Guitarist: Ayomide Owoyemi
The Piano: Neelam Chandra
Naming Hip-Hop or Recalling Abati: Peter Akinlabi
The Chocolate Torte: Andrew Rooney

With Musical Scores
The Pledge: Ikeogu Oke
I Can’t Reach You: Ikeogu Oke
Maple Country: Ikeogu Oke

We Have Known Ironies: Donald Molosi
Between Einstein and Me: Thoughts of Music: Lore Adebola
A Poet’s Struggles: Kolade Ajayi
Picture, Cap and GowN: Michael Lee Johnson
An Old Melody: Neelam Chandra
Music is…: Dikeogu Chukwumerije

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A Younger Generation Reflects on War, Literature and Zimbabwe

The Magazine

Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world.

Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years.

Warscapes is motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the literature they produce.

Apart from showcasing great writing from war-torn areas, the magazine is a tool for understanding complex political crises in various regions and serves as an alternative to compromised representations of those issues.

Literature

Traitor by Shobasakthi

This excerpt depicts the 1983 Welikade jail massacre that took place during Sri Lanka's Black July.

Poetry

Five Poems by Oumar Farouk Sesay

A poet from Sierra Leone writes about the decade-old war.

Art

Claiming Landscapes

Photographer David Brazier presents a diverse collection of images from Zimbabwe.

Retrospectives

Zimbabwe in Focus

Charles Samupindi's 1992 novel, Pawns sheds light on Zimbabwe's liberation war.

Reviews

Books, performances and films

Reviews, analyses and recommendations.

Conversations

In Conversation with Shobasakthi

A novelist, ex-soldier and refugee reflects on Sri Lankan politics, the Tamil situation and Paris.

Opinion

Shock Full of Nuts

Michael Busch takes on star economist Jeffrey Sachs on the Nigeria fuel crisis.

Reportage

Qaddafi's Abattoir

Saad Basir shares a glimpse of the disorder and devastation lurking just beneath the surface in post-Qaddafi Libya.

November 2011: Writing from the Caribbean

Image: Nadia Huggins, untitled, 2005, 16"x12"

This month we present literature from the Caribbean. Writers from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Martinique, and Puerto Rico contribute compelling portraits of their countries and societies. From sober reports on natural disasters and political oppression to antic depictions of sexuality run amok, the pieces collected here testify to the range and vitality of this region's writers. Haiti's Dany Laferrière reports from the rubble of the 2010 earthquake. In an excerpt from his Prix Goncourt-shortlisted novel, Lyonel Trouillot sends a young woman in search of her family history. Cuba's Jorge Olivera Castillo brings a nightmare to life. His countryman Omar Pérez performs a lively regguetón. From Martinique, Suzanne Dracius rides with Amazons, while Johan Moya Ramis struggles with an unruly body part. Évelyne Trouillot gives voice to a madwoman on a turbulent journey. Puerto Rico's Juan Flores presents a tap-dancing sage, while José María Lima speaks from the grave. In poetry from the Dominican Republic, Frank Baez paints a self-portrait, José Mármol communes with nature, and Aurora Arias comes full circle. We trust you'll enjoy this island tour.

A Poem by Tomas Tranströmer

Poetry by Tomas Tranströmer

Sketch in October

It's a heavy burnt-out lamp, tipped over in the cold.

 

Three Israeli Writers

Fiction by Moshe Ron

Spider

Nor did the female members of that tiny minority of your loyal following escape your sleazy attentions.

Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

Fiction by Agur Schiff

from “What You Wished For”

There was, for example, his fascinating report of how he trained a wolf pup while hiding out as a partisan in the woods near Minsk.

Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

Nonfiction by Liel Leibovitz

No Way Out: Talking to Orly Castel-Bloom, Agur Schiff, and Moshe Ron

The landscape is like a small snow globe that perfectly captures the thrills and tumults of the society it represents.

 

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Fiction by Orly Castel-Bloom

Diary

I told myself that here, sitting right across from me, was a real murderer, even if he had only murdered Bonnie.

Translated from Hebrew by Joe Lockard

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Book Reviews

Anja Utler’s “engulf – enkindle”

Reviewed by E.C. Belli

Utler’s volume snares readers with a haunted, elliptical syntax. The words walk through these poems as in a preserve

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Zoran Drvenkar’s “Sorry”

Reviewed by Nina Herzog

Rare is the thriller that surpasses the limits of genre fiction. But Zoran Drvenkar’s Sorry is one such book: a thriller on its face, but also a thoughtful study in guilt and innocence, violence and redemption.

Nonfiction by Dany Laferrière

The World is Moving Around Me

I understand now that a minute can hold the entire life of a city.

Translated from French by David Homel

Poetry by Omar Pérez

There is No Theorem (A Regguetón)

all things in moderation and the moderation addles.

Translated from Spanish by Kristin Dykstrabilingual version

Fiction by Johan Moya Ramis

The Other Day After the Rain

He throws the arm with the machete around my shoulders, the edge of the blade scant centimeters from my neck.

Translated from Spanish by David Iaconangelobilingual version

Fiction by Lyonel Trouillot

from “La Belle Amour Humaine”

Now that I no longer see, I see no better use of my presence in this world than to look out the window.

Translated from French by Linda Coverdalebilingual version

Poetry by Frank Baez

Self-Portrait

The neighbors dream of shooting me.

Translated from Spanish by Hoyt Rogersbilingual version

Fiction by Évelyne Trouillot

Brine, Blood, and Mother’s Milk

I still tremble from the child's furtive attention.

Translated from French by Paul Curtis Dawbilingual version

Fiction by Jorge Olivera Castillo

Alive or Dead

One of the dogs goes for him as if there were nothing between them to block its way.

Translated from Spanish by Amanda Hopkinson

Poetry by Suzanne Dracius

Women’s Fantasies

You’ll have no cause for complaint / You’ll be sated

Translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlsonbilingual version

Poetry by José Mármol

Deus ex Machina

Throw the dice, Lord, your turn has inevitably come.

Translated from Spanish by Erica Menabilingual version

Poetry by Juan Carlos Flores

The Crane

somewhat drunk he tap dances over the wet cobblestones

Translated from Spanish by Kristin Dykstrabilingual version

Poetry by José Mármol

Invention of the Day

thursday the man who invented death with his blood rested on a rock.

Translated from Spanish by Erica Menabilingual version

Poetry by José María Lima

From the Grave of My Grave

stalker-yesterday says slowly / my death has not begun

Translated from Spanish by Erica Menabilingual version

Poetry by Aurora Arias

Bird’s Nest

the honied bodies of whores / hold all the men.

Translated from Spanish by Erica Menabilingual version

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