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Love & Memory
by Jamal Gabobe

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See Also
Jamal Gabobe's essay "Termites and Clans" in An Ear to the Ground.

Excerpts from Love & Memory.
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Jamal Gabobe's work-in-progress, a nonfiction narrative about his native land.
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Catalogue #: 01X
ISBN: 1-885942-01-X  paper $9.95

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Description
The life of Jamal Gabobe traces the ruptures and fissures of this world. Born into a Muslim family in Somaliland, Gabobe was educated in a Catholic school in Aden (Yemen), and currently lives in Seattle. Known locally as "The Poet Laureate of East Africa," Gabobe's verse deftly probes an "ordinary" personal life to reveal a complex past.

Quotes
"The authentic exile's tone . . . love, indignation, and helplessness."
- Jack Brenner, University of Washington

Author's Bio
Jamal Gabobe is a Seattle based writer who works and studies at the University of Washington. Currently he is writing a nonfiction account of his relations with his troubled homeland.

Publisher's Note
A profile of Jamal Gabobe (taken from An Ear to the Ground):

The first time I met Jamal Gabobe was on bus number forty-eight leaving the University of Washington on its way to south Seattle. As we talked and I got to know him better, I was amazed at his international background. He was born in Somaliland to a Muslim family. When he was five years old, however, he immigrated with his parents to Aden where he was educated in a Catholic school. This means that he was taught in English, spoke Somali at home, and spoke Arabic in the streets and bazaars of this ancient city.

Jamal is a regular at Cafe Roma, a hangout on the Ave, the U District's busiest street. Roma looks like a warehouse with a glass wall on one side. On the opposite wall a local artist displays his or her work each month. Roma also has a balcony where people ranging from students to street kids sip coffee, chat, read, and watch the local U District hipsters, deadheads, jocks, geeks, chi chi gals, and preppy kids walking past. The place is menacing and disorganized, but this doesn't seem to bother Jamal. If anything, it reminds him of cafes in Aden where the high and the low mix freely. Roma's main attraction for him, however, is that people leave him alone to do his writing.

Jamal is primarily a poet, but he has also written short stories, a novel, and a play. His book of poems Love & Memory chronicles the twists and turns of his life. He is doing graduate work in comparative literature at the University of Washington, and works at Suzzallo library.

"All roads lead to Roma," Jamal says. Roads and journeys are things he knows a lot about.

- La'Chris Jordan

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