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Rimbaud Verlag - Tchicaya U Tam'si - German
URL: http://www.rimbaud.de/utamsi.html

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Tchicaya U Tam'si - French
URL: http://www.doublechange.com/issue2/tamsi.htm

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Utamsi - English
URL: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/utamsi.htm

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U Tam'si was born in Mpili (Congo Brazzaville), but moved to France in 1946. He died in Oise, France in 1988. Like David Diop, U Tam'si's poetry is colloquial and spoken. Though informal, his work is sophisticated, mocking, and rife with dark humor. He juxtaposes vivid historic images and symbolic, even surrealist, renderings of reality, producing a powerful commentary on not only African life, but the human condition.

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