The Hug

About the Book

In The Hug there can be a nasty side like anything else but that is not all the book brings to the table. Behind the poems is struggle. Struggle of the oppressed. Struggle of the poet with personal ayana (spirit). Pain, laughter. Success, failure. Much love, no much hate …. Politics and poetics of exile, or raided humanity! And faith. (I said faith?) But what do we have faith in if one soul's god is another’s stone? It is just believe it and not. The meaning is in the "common ground".

About the Author

Asafa Tafarra Dibaba is the author of Decorous Decorum (2006), Beyond Adversities (2010), Anaan’yaa (1998) and five other books. Currently he is a student of Folklore at Indiana University, USA, and working on his PhD research, Salale Oromo Folklore and Resistance Culture.