Mama Afrika Comments

Great work! Growing up in Africa.

dear Lisa, it's a real pity I haven't received any news from you..: ( this way I cannot include your 2 poems in the Anthology ebook ''WHISPERS TO THE WORLD''.. I'm really sorry...

so.. what do you think of my translation..? fammi sapere

mi fa piacere leggere i commenti di Daniel, poeta e caro amico del Minnesota, alle tue due poesie. Gli ho parlato di una brava poetessa che ho invitato a partecipare all'antologia e gli ho chiesto di leggere le poesie e scrivere l'introduzione al libro.. Mi fa quindi piacere dirti che mi ha scritto un'email in cui esprime il suo compiacimento ad averti con noi :) My Italian translation has been sent.. ;)

SOFIA is the intimate version of a human mother-daughter relationship, literal, immediate, concrete; this poem is the symbolic version of the mother-daughter relationship, metaphorical, transcendent, universal, but your words make it as real as the previous poem. You have evoked a whole continent and imbued it with a human and humane realism that is completely persuasive. You have internalized your place of origin and carry it with you, its life, power, beauty, truth - it's all wonderful things that pour forth from your life ans actions.

Yes, we are all African. Nicely written, Lisa

a song of love for a land (a continent) which was the cradle of all us.. Thanks for sharing, Lisa