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Nostalgia
We all want to cherish moments in time that spoke to us and resonated with our lives, hoping to etch the memory into our minds and hearts and carry it with us for as long as we can. Nostalgia was written in an attempt to do just that. Over a span of a few months, and after a long duration of writers’ block, the poet tried to come up with poems that took her to a space where words would flow freely from the mind to the paper/screen. It was also a way of trying to hold onto a past that was littered with innocence and naivety.
It is as much a transitional as it is stationary, with poems that traverse times to look into the past and show the changes in the present. It captures the slow pace of change that is usually missed in a blink of an eye. In anecdotal pieces, poems of encounters in coffee houses and messages to friends as a way to show much more than just what was and a desire of what could have been. Nostalgia is a combination of short profound poems and intensely long ones that gives a sneak peek into the mind of the poet. The poet uses everyday events and stuff to juxtapose the emotions that takes the reader into different space and time as they scramble for their own existence and realities.
Nduta Waweru takes the reader through the self-conflict, self-awareness, loss, love and womanhood. In language that simple and relatable, she frames life in what is an eclectic array of simplicity and complexity, compulsion and intention and of beauty and blandness. It is to her a self-portrait painted with words, in an effort to understand life better and to fight against figurative self-immolation. The connection of the ego and the decisions we make and the consequence we face is the centre of the collection.
Nostalgia contrasts the tranquillity with images of the sea and sky with havoc of destruction of physical spaces and in the mind. It bears no loyalty to anyone or anything else except the mind as images create scenarios only relatable to the reader and their present circumstances. For a first collection, the aura is as refreshing as endearing and Nostalgia is blunt in its words and format. The beauty of this book is that it does not try to answer questions but rather posits scenarios and circumstances that seeks for further questions and introspection. As much as it is personal, it is communal in its quests to look for a convergence point for each reader.
It is as much a transitional as it is stationary, with poems that traverse times to look into the past and show the changes in the present. It captures the slow pace of change that is usually missed in a blink of an eye. In anecdotal pieces, poems of encounters in coffee houses and messages to friends as a way to show much more than just what was and a desire of what could have been. Nostalgia is a combination of short profound poems and intensely long ones that gives a sneak peek into the mind of the poet. The poet uses everyday events and stuff to juxtapose the emotions that takes the reader into different space and time as they scramble for their own existence and realities.
Nduta Waweru takes the reader through the self-conflict, self-awareness, loss, love and womanhood. In language that simple and relatable, she frames life in what is an eclectic array of simplicity and complexity, compulsion and intention and of beauty and blandness. It is to her a self-portrait painted with words, in an effort to understand life better and to fight against figurative self-immolation. The connection of the ego and the decisions we make and the consequence we face is the centre of the collection.
Nostalgia contrasts the tranquillity with images of the sea and sky with havoc of destruction of physical spaces and in the mind. It bears no loyalty to anyone or anything else except the mind as images create scenarios only relatable to the reader and their present circumstances. For a first collection, the aura is as refreshing as endearing and Nostalgia is blunt in its words and format. The beauty of this book is that it does not try to answer questions but rather posits scenarios and circumstances that seeks for further questions and introspection. As much as it is personal, it is communal in its quests to look for a convergence point for each reader.
25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 11, 2016
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