AFTER AFRICA Collected Poems

AFTER AFRICA Collected Poems PDF Author: Bart Wolffe
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291644512
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 737

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Book Description
This compilation of poems is a result of ten years work since leaving Africa. It shares the journey, from memory and loss into discovery and new voice. The writing is mostly chronological and is taken from the eight anthologies Bart has created since his departure from Zimbabwe in February of 2003.

AFTER AFRICA Collected Poems

AFTER AFRICA Collected Poems PDF Author: Bart Wolffe
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291644512
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 737

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Book Description
This compilation of poems is a result of ten years work since leaving Africa. It shares the journey, from memory and loss into discovery and new voice. The writing is mostly chronological and is taken from the eight anthologies Bart has created since his departure from Zimbabwe in February of 2003.

After the Ceremonies

After the Ceremonies PDF Author: Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496201116
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. After the Ceremonies is arranged in three parts: new and uncollected poems, some of which Aidoo calls “misplaced or downright lost”; selections from Aidoo’s An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems; and selections from Someone Talking to Sometime. Although Aidoo is best known for her novels Changes: A Love Story and Our Sister Killjoy, which are widely read in women’s literature courses, and her plays The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa, which are read and performed all over the world, her prowess as a poet shines in this collection.

Gabriel Okara

Gabriel Okara PDF Author: Gabriel Okara
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803288662
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman's Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964). Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet's earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria's war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara's work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa's most revered poets.

A New Africa

A New Africa PDF Author: Chigbo Ambrose Ugwuoke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789789403189
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry PDF Author: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141181004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Offers a selection of African poetry arranged by country

Pages from the Book of the Sun

Pages from the Book of the Sun PDF Author: Niyi Osundare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Sacrament of Bodies

Sacrament of Bodies PDF Author: Romeo Oriogun
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219643
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun explores grief and how the body finds survival through migration.

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry PDF Author: Michael S. Harper
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030776513X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.

The Promise of Hope

The Promise of Hope PDF Author: Kofi Awoonor
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803249896
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana’s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited collection of some of Awoonor’s most arresting work spanning almost fifty years. Selected and edited by Awoonor’s friend and colleague Kofi Anyidoho, himself a prominent poet and academic in Ghana, The Promise of Hope contains much of Awoonor’s most recent unpublished poetry, along with many of his anthologized and classic poems. This engaging volume serves as a fitting contribution to the inaugural cohort of books in the African Poetry Book Series.

The Collected Poetry

The Collected Poetry PDF Author: Léopold Sédar Senghor
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813918327
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 598

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Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also Africa's most famous poet. A cofounder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized as one of the most significant figures in African literature. This bilingual edition of Senghor's complete poems made his work available for the first time to English-speaking audiences. His poetry, alive with sensual imagery, contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa's past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Translator Melvin Dixon places Senghor's writing in historical persepctive by relating it to both his political involvement and his intellectual development.