Vestiges

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Vestiges BillF.Ndi rhythm is stimulating to all the five senses thanks to the use of multiple images. A lot of imagery in Vestiges gives a picture of a war front after a ferocious battle. The objects, animals, and images in the poems disorient and lead the reader to focusing on putting flesh to the bones than just getting the juice of the poems... The rhythm more than anything else carries the reader through this chaotic tableau painted in Vestiges. In a way, this comes across as a substantiation of the poet’s vision of our world and an explanation as to why he considers this collection as a skeleton; and precisely skeletons left by the ravages of war. Is the poet’s world and ours a field of ruins and topsy-turvydom to which we are all blind? The answer is yours. BILL F. NDI, poet, playwright, storyteller & critic was born in BamunkaNdop , the North West Region of Cameroon. He was educated in the Cameroons, Nigeria and France. He obtained his doctorate degree in Languages, Literatures and Contemporary Civilizations at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France. He has held teaching positions at the Paris School of Languages, the University of Sunshine Coast, University of Queensland and Deakin University Australia. He now teaches at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama. He has published in both the English and French languages. ...