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Uche

To Precious Turmoil

About Me

Poetry,poetry is what i write(check out my blogs) and live.To a trouble-filled world i posit peace and creative resistance. Please if you are interested in ordering any of my displayed books,make contact through these email addresses: [email protected] and [email protected] further information about my works you may visit my website- http://www.pluriverse.de/uche

My Interests

new Books out in March 2007

Writing poems,making music,reading ,adventurous conversation , going for long walks, cooking,travelling,visiting beaches.

I'd like to meet:

I will like to meet open-minded and creative individuals.Both for friendship and professional networking.

Music:

Depending on my mood,i like Afro-beat,hip-hop,rock,classical music,salsa,punk,juju,highlife,folk,ikwokirikwo,reggae,blues ,grunge,country,soul,funk,ambient,kwaito etc

Movies:

Young Adam,The Piano Teacher,Barfly,Pretty Woman,Coffee and Cigarettes, Goya,Bisi Daughter Of The River,Frida Kahlo,Pull My Daisy, Rainbone,Blues For A Prodigal,Medea,High Fidelity,The Films of Jim Jarmusch,The films of Ola Balogun.

Television:

The Rich Also Cry,Addendum,Skywalkers.

Books:

Season of Anomy,Path To Love,The Roads Less Travelled,Labyrinths,Ariel,Gasoline,Cranial Guitar

Heroes:

Nelson Mandela,Spike Lee,Anais Nin,Olga Broumas,John Coltrane,Sidney Poitier,Maria Rilke, Leonard Cohen,Rosa Parks,Christopher Okigbo,Bob kaufman, Robert Duncan,Dambudzo Marechera,Charles Mingus,Sun Ra,Tai Solarin,Harry Belafonte,bell hooks,Mokwugo Okoye,Edwin Madunagu,Mahatma Gandhi,Martin Luther King Jnr,Jacques Ranciere,Adrian Piper,Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Margaret Ekpo,June Jordan,Ken Saro-Wiwa,Rosa Luxemburg,Cesar Vallejo,Lynn Chukura,Irving Layton,Maya Angelou,Paul Tillich,Gambo Sawaba,Jacques Derrida,Audre Lorde,Vaclav Havel,Billie Holiday,Osip Mandelstam,Helene Cixous,Pele,Betty Friedan,Eugenio Montale,Susan Sontag,Octavio Paz,Anna Akhmatova,Walter Rodney,Olufunmilayo Ransome Kuti,Frantz Fanon,Thomas Paine,Bob Marley,Jeremy Reed,Tim Buckley,Paul Celan,Modigliani,Demas Nwoko,Aime Cesaire,Jimi Hendrix,Breyten Breytenbach,Gabriel Okara,James Baldwin, Witold Gombrowicz,Joni Mitchell,Zinedine Zidane,John Lee Hooker Jr,Joseph Brodsky,Woody Guthrie,Herman Brood,Terry Eagleton,Hölderlin,Chika Okpala,Federico Garcia Lorca,James Iroha,Hannah Arendt,Julian Cope,Gao Xingjian,Nina Simone,Phil Lynott,Dorothy Day,Rabindranath Tagore,Pauline Oliveros,Michel Foucault,Nina Mba,Sibelius,Fela Sowande,Adrienne Rich,Donatus Nwoga,Sly Stone,John Chukwu,Diane di Prima,Ian Curtis,Elizabeth Bishop,Stravinsky,Ernst Toller,Iyanla Vanzant,Noam Chomsky,Uche Okeke,Adonis,Roland Barthes,Marvin Gaye,Celestine Ukwu,Antonio Machado,Bob Thompson,Patti Smith,Chike Obi,Sylvia Plath,Annie Sprinkle, Khalil Gibran,Isaac Hayes,Dionne Brand,Gherasim Luca,Vivaldi,Yoko Ono,W.H Auden,Iggy Pop,Dennis Brutus,Van Morrison,Julia Kristeva,Fernando Pessoa,Joe Strummer,George Clinton,Art Alade,Galsan Tschinag,Catherine Millet,Walter Benjamin,John Lennon,Katsushika Hokusai,Laz Ekwueme,Clarice Lispector,Gill Scott-Heron,David Bowie,Wim Wenders,Jab Adu, Pearl Cleage,Raja Rao,Stevie Wonder,Mourid Barghouti,Laurie Anderson,ILhan Berk,Henry David Thoreau,Alice Notley,Joseph Beuys,Serge Gainsbourg,Brendan Kennelly,Jalaluddin Rumi,Kalamu ya Salaam,Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,Derek Walcott,Chateaubriand,Trinh T. Minh-ha,Kenneth Rexroth,Basho,Lou Reed,Gilles Deleuze,Kenneth Dike,Jimmy Page.

My Blog

Bessie Smith

that fishbone of the acoustic curve.   close to the sea trees stare at us.   she has slain the tiger. a day has flown.   around the turns of reverie taking the turns slowly.   head...
Posted by Uche on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:08:00 PST

At Christianborg Castle(Ghana)

As they go by As they go by   No quarter given or taken.   At Christianborg Castle:   Who will lend us The eyes With which to look?   Which plum shall We offer In penance?   W...
Posted by Uche on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:29:00 PST

A COLLOQUIAL LIGHT

a colloquial light reached down to the cowries around your ankle.   wisdom jigged in your harbour.   a heart-shaped kolanut floated through a cautious palm.   answers wove themselves in...
Posted by Uche on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:02:00 PST

OF WAXLAND

past helming a waxland i am due for my hood pass   time to pulse and scratch into a swagger   past helming a waxland i must toot my own horn   ask for a parenthesis to live on hear what...
Posted by Uche on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:53:00 PST

OUTWASH

those tremblers those abnormals whose voices i masturbate to   endlessly out from one bondage into another   the mesh in the story is public the mess in the flesh will be public   destr...
Posted by Uche on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:21:00 PST

Going Up

I like love Love likes me Lost in you Love puts me to work Wordlessly,lordlessly   Oh precious misery!                  &...
Posted by Uche on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:24:00 PST

History Is Where Dead Things Stay

History is where dead things stay.   It will not wrench away a war. It will not heckle a hype. It will not save a starveling   Leaning on a promise.   An ermine reproaches A splitting m...
Posted by Uche on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:12:00 PST

The Hubris

shall we cease being the children of diverse breakdowns someday   passing a guard at the door sanctions advance to your midsection   shall we lose that thereness always in us   worrying...
Posted by Uche on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:36:00 PST

The Woman Astride Me

its inquisition. the dangling basket on the Lower East Side.   postmarks on gameboard, on bronchial vine,latescent.   sometimes i don't know where my penis will take me.   she glowed on...
Posted by Uche on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:29:00 PST

Before You Enter

Before you enter his stillness before i enter you   Before you enter his signpost before i enter you   Before you enter his doorway before i enter you   Before you enter his fury before...
Posted by Uche on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:31:00 PST