Labyrinth of Ondjaki's Poetry

This study intends to show the poetic facet of the work of the young Angolan writer Ondjaki. That characteristic runs through the whole of his work, both in poetry and in prose, and the purpose of this study is to analyze and show the poetics of this literary work. Here we approach as mucu as possible the whoke of Ondjaki's poetic work, but in more detail we intend to analyze the book Ha Prendisajens com Xao, which is perhaps, from those he has written, the most imbued with experimental language, neologisms, puns, and free, almost childlike poetry close to nonsense poetry. We will try to show how such vision of the world not only reanimates words and gives them completely new senses, but also creates new, pure and unexpected realities.