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Memories of displacement: Sudanese poet K Eltinae on writing 'verses in the sky'


As a
third-culture kid moving from one country to another, K Eltinae was often caught tracing complicated shapes in the air. People are going to think you re crazy, his father would snap, smacking his hand to stop him.
Intricate interior illustrations by Sudanese artist Abed El Moonem Omer, aka Teddy Moonem, add to the visual appeal of this collection (Abed El Moonem Omer)
It looked like aimless doodling, but the shapes were actually letters. Eltinae was writing verses in the sky, as he calls it.
I wrote poems that made me laugh and look at the world in a way that made sense during times when I felt out of place in my own skin, culture, language and identity, he wrote in a recent autobiographical essay. ....

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