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Becoming Ebony /
Recapturing the celebratory voice of Africa in poems that are both contemporary and traditional, Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley weaves lyrical storytelling with oral history and images of Africa and America, revealing powerful insights about the relationship between strength and tragedy-and fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- My Birth at the Doorpost
- I Used to Own This Town
- Get Out of Here, Boys!
- Requiem for Auntie
- Today Is Already Too Much
- For Marie Antoinette
- In the Beginning
- This Is What I Tell My Daughter
- War Baby
- The Moon Poem
- They Want to Rise Up
- Elegy to West Point Fishermen
- Coming Home to Iyeeh
- A Dirge for Charles Taylor
- Around the Mountains
- Elegy for Dessie
- Transfiguration
- When I Meet Moses
- For Robert Frost
- The Corrupt Shall Rise Incorruptible
- We've Done It All
- The World in Long Lines
- All the Soft Things of Earth
- Becoming Ebony
- For My Husband
- Wandering Child
- Small Desires
- When I Rise to Look the Sunshine in Its Bare Eye
- A Poem for My Father
- In This Town
- My Neighbors' Dogs
- A Letter to My Brother Coming to America
- My New Insurance Plan
- These Are the Reasons the Living Live
- M-T, Turning Thirteen
- Winter Street
- A Snowwoman in Her Dying Hour
- I Now Wander
- I Am Acquainted with Waiting.