Arba Tebitawoch (Forty Droplets)
By
Sinkneh Eshetu (O’Tam Pulto), January 2004, Addis Ababa
Cover Design: Mulugeta G/Kidan
Cover Design: Mulugeta G/Kidan
Arba
Tebitawoch (Forty Droplets) is a collection of Amharic poems that attempt to
weave the concept of time and space, the way experienced in African culture,
into human emotion, celebrating life and death, exploring a new dimension of
poetry.
It
could be said that this is a book of questions or of search. It tries to raise sensible
questions about some fundamental issues such as Time, Space, Void, Chaos, Life,
Death, Love, Beauty, Search, Eternity, Creation, God, and Man. Even if it may
say things in all these, it doesn’t sound as a book of answers. It rather is
the author’s effort to make sense of life in its totality, inspired both by
indigenous knowledge and modern science. As can be seen in the books that
followed this, such as The Big Turbulence, Ellan Fillega, Ye’Sisay Lijoch,
The Dao of the Dusty Foot Philosopher and others, Arba Tebitawoch
has a major influence on the author’s perspectives on things and seems to offer
him a framework for his future works.
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