Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure

Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide: 2nd Edition by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure (2015)

Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide [1st Edition] by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure (2006)

Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide offers a powerful, poetic response to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath.  The first edition of this collection was made possible by support from the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. The second addition adds three new poems and additional explanatory notes in addition to the content of the original 2006 collection. The 2nd edition of Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide is also available electronically for the Kindle. 

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"With Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide, Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, one of our best critics, uses his rich, eloquent poetic voice to insure that the memories of one of the Twentieth Century's most horrific Holocausts won't be buried as unsung as the victims were." — Ishmael Reed

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Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide: 2nd Edition by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
2015, 56 pages, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2, $12.95

Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide [1st Edition] by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
2006, 48 pages, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2, $9.95

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