{"product_id":"a-shameless-desolate-hungry-present-paperback","title":"...a shameless, desolate, hungry present. - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlf E. F. Muronda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Shameless, Desolate, Hungry Present\u003c\/em\u003e is a psychologically rich and philosophically resonant long-form poem that interrogates the fragmentation of postcolonial identity in the aftermath of liberation struggles. Through a solitary soldier's fragmented consciousness, the poem engages themes of historical amnesia, ecological collapse, and spiritual dislocation. Set in a barren, post-revolutionary landscape, the text explores the existential paradoxes of heroism and defeat, memory and erasure, agency and paralysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a symbolic lexicon grounded in African cosmology and guerrilla resistance, the narrative unspools with cinematic pacing and rhetorical gravitas. The poem's speaker becomes both witness and relic-suspended in a liminal temporality where ancestral sacrifice collides with the absurdity of an unredeemed present. Natural imagery-bleached bones, silent rivers, sun-stripped bark-functions as both metaphor and testimony, anchoring broader questions about the cost of historical progress and the psychic toll of liberation deferred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis poem is essential reading for scholars of postcolonial literature, African poetics, trauma studies, and political aesthetics. It offers fertile ground for interdisciplinary analysis, especially in the contexts of eco-criticism, memory studies, and narrative resistance against hegemonic historicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 22\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.05 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48704244941049,"sku":"9781965398357","price":14.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/GOWWd_ee029781965398357.webp?v=1784811705","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-shameless-desolate-hungry-present-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}