Globetrotter and Hitler’s Children

Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children is a book of two sequences, melded beautifully and seamlessly, both of which are the shape of the poet’s consciousness and body in relation to space and place. Globetrotter is an immigrant’s paean to the city of Toronto, while Hitler’s Children is a poet’s struggle with race, otherness, and Germany in the spirit of witness, passion, humor, melancholy, and understanding.

“Ede has the warmth of William Carlos Williams and the analytical power of Malcom X.” – George Elliott Clarke, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry

“Amatoritsero Ede is a startling voice in Canadian letters – sophisticated, original, and accomplished. A master of both words and worlds, in Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children he is footloose but totally in control of language as he wanders across geographical and literary boundaries, scalpel in one hand, paintbrush in the other. His work is a reflection of the poetics of our times: original and startling imagery from an incisive, analytical mind.” – Olive Senior, author of Shell