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Charles Cantalupo

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Charles Cantalupo

Charles Cantalupo has published two books of translations of Reesom Haile’s poetry:  We Have Our Voice (2000) and We Invented the Wheel (2002), both by Red Sea Press.  With Ghirmai Negash, he has also published Who Needs a Story: Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre, and Arabic (Hdri Publishers, 2005)....

 The author of War and Peace in Eritrean Poetry (Mkuki na Nyota, 2010), Cantalupo has a new memoir:  Joining Africa: From Anthills to Asmara (Michigan State University Press, 2012).  He is Distinguished Professor of English, African Studies, and Comparative Literature at Penn State.  
 

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Articles by Charles Cantalupo

The Girl Who Carried a Gun
By Haregu Keleta
The family blamed Solomon for me going off to fight.
Translated from Tigrinya by Charles Cantalupo & Rahel Asgedom Zere
Unjust Praise
By Ghirmai Yohannes
In the beginningThe spirit movingUpon the face of the watersAnd in the breaking wavesTasted saltAnd I see fields of itDrying on the shore.We let in shallow lakes of seaTo evaporate,And the saltAccumulates…
Translated from Tigrinya by Charles Cantalupo & Ghirmai Negash