The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry

The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry PDF Author: Stella Chipasula
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent.

The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry

The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry PDF Author: Stella Chipasula
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Book Description
This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent.

Poems from East Africa

Poems from East Africa PDF Author: David Cook
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966460196
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.

The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English

The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English PDF Author: Adewale Maja-Pearce
Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.

Ten South African Poets

Ten South African Poets PDF Author: Adam Schwartzman
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Brings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the anthology takes the poetry of the region away from the dichotomy which apartheid promoted.

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry PDF Author: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141912901
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.

Ethiopia Unbound

Ethiopia Unbound PDF Author: Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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The Paperbook of South African English Poetry

The Paperbook of South African English Poetry PDF Author: Michael Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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A Selection of African Poetry

A Selection of African Poetry PDF Author: Kojo E. Senanu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Black Nature

Black Nature PDF Author: Camille T. Dungy
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334316
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.

When the Wanderers Come Home

When the Wanderers Come Home PDF Author: Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803295030
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as “one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century,” Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain and inner turmoil of a homeland still reconciling itself in the aftermath of multiple wars and destruction. Wesley, a native Liberian, calls on deeply rooted African motifs and proverbs, utilizing the poetics of both the West and Africa to convey her grief. Autobiographical in nature, the poems highlight the hardships of a diaspora African and the devastation of a country and continent struggling to recover. When the Wanderers Come Home is a woman’s story about being an exile, a survivor, and an outsider in her own country; it is her cry for the Africa that is being lost in wars across the continent, creating more wanderers and world citizens.