Soaring on Winged Verse: The Life of Ethiopian Poet-Playwright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin BISAC-TRA004020 ISBN13: 9798597194264

ISBN13: 9798597194264

Author: Kristen M

" --Vladimir Lucien

Hanna left Germany leaving everything she knew and not knowing if any of her family had survived the War

Soaring on Winged Verse: The Life of Ethiopian Poet-Playwright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin BISAC-TRA004020 ISBN13: 9798597194264Ethiopia's late Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre Medhin wrote close to 45 plays and a volume of poetry, Isat Woy Abeba (Blaze or Bloom), hailed among the most influential works in Amharic. Original in thought and provocative in content, Tsegaye's works probe into the tumultuous meeting spaces of 'traditional' and 'modern' values while critically examining assumptions of identity across generations. Soaring on Winged Verse serves as an intimate window into