{"product_id":"a-shameless-desolate-hungry-present-alf-e-f-muronda-9781965398357","title":"...a shameless, desolate, hungry present.","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alf E. F. Muronda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1965398359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781965398357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Masaka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.05d","brand":"Alf E. F. Muronda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742943260927,"sku":"9781965398357","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-shameless-desolate-hungry-present-alf-e-f-muronda-9781965398357","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}