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Moonlight, hellfire, komorebi - light filtered through leaves. And the light from fires - buried, rekindled, luminous - a cremating fire of ritual and transformation of experience. Barya has a discourse with the spirit world in dreams and receives messages from ancestors, phantom children, and the dead which proves the real world is porous and miraculous. Barya has a witchy power and has written a haunted book that manufactures wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Bruce Smith, Spill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf one's hand is in clay, it means one is caught in a flux, a thickness that is somehow also seductively light. The hand and heart of this poet are drenched in a clay so rich with minerals and meaning, hazard and hope, they teach us how to make and unmake, to dream while staying awake, and to rejoice even as one grieves. Guided by the wisdom of ancestors and the not-yet-born, by goats and tea leaves and strangers in traffic, Mildred Kiconco Barya's \"lusty and persistent\" poems show us how \"everything is through-as in veil, if not vale.\" Though the journey is from life to death to rebirth, \"the fog is omnipresent\" and \"[e]very few seconds, the celestial \/ bodies exchange positions\" matter and time are recyclable, and experience ever renewed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Aditi Machado, Material Witness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Passing effortlessly through the thin membrane that separates the real from the fantastical, Mildred Kiconco Barya's Hands in Clay takes the reader on a spectacular journey. The speaker in these poems is simultaneously wide-eyed and knowing, \"an infant\/yet full of years,\" and like the woman seated beside the speaker of \"The Things You Encounter on a Flight,\" marveling at the sunset Barya has nudged her into seeing, the reader will want to reach out to figuratively hold the hand of the creator of these fine poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Christopher Kennedy, The Strange God Who Makes Us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52532751368465,"sku":"NLS9781947175990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52725122498833,"sku":"NIN9781947175990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781947175990.jpg?v=1760662107"},{"product_id":"price-of-memory-book-mildred-kiconco-barya-9781856571029","title":"The Price of Memory","description":"The price of Memory is a collection of 63 poems. The poems in vivid imagery uncover what happens when the pleasurable thrill of being alive is lost in the pain that settles among the familiar and refuses to say goodbye, as in the poems 'Baggage' and 'Maybe.' The subject of memory, remembrance and forgetfulness resound throughout the collection, from the private nostalgic experiences in 'Wastelands, ' 'The Island, ' to the collective 'Africa re-disappointed, ' 'Borderless Africa, ' and 'Child of the Universe.' In this poetry, we witness what comes out of keeping dreams in trouser pockets ridden with holes. When we send the eye to look into the future, with shock we discover that the future came.what can take away the pain and cold anger is the indomitable will that purposes to shed off memory like a cloak. Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer and poet. She has written short-stories and essays for various publications, features and travel articles for newspapers. Her first collection of poetry titled: Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say won the National Award for poetry publication 2002. The Price of Memory is her second poetry collection. Her current writings highlight HIV\/AIDS issues, religious cults and the pursuit of identity and belonging. Mildred lives in Uganda, her homeland and works on her novel titled: Soul of Rivers. Among her recent publications include Call me a Panda, an HIV\/AIDS children's story, Effigy Child, a short story with Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, We Seek a Face, a short story with Authorme.com and Raindrops a short story in Words from a Granary, FEMRITE publication","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52755856621841,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52755857113361,"sku":"NIN9781856571029","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781856571029.jpg?v=1763574612"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-mildred-kiconco-barya.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}