Against All Odds — Eritrean Millennium Poems by Reesom Haile

“Knowledge,” by Reesom Haile

Reesom Haile

First the earth, then the plow:
So knowledge comes out of knowledge.
We know, we don’t know.
We don’t know we know.
We know we don’t know.
We think
This looks like that —
This lemon, that orange —
Until we taste the bitter.

(English translation by Charles Cantalupo)

• Introduction
• Desta, by Reesom Haile
• Our Language, by Reesom Haile
• Knowledge, by Reesom Haile
• Learning from History, by Reesom Haile
• The Next Generation, by Reesom Haile