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We have crossed many rivers : new poetry from Africa /
We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lagos, Nigeria :
Malthouse Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Malthouse African poetry series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Contributors; Contents; Benin; Forgetful; Burundi; The Dream; Cameroon; Going to Nairobi; Awakening; The Day We Planted Father; Assoreh Love; Monikim Dancer; Lady of the Morning; Between Airports; A Free Ka is the Evidence of Things not Seen; Dreamers ; Rites of Passage; Vengeance; Courage Tita: tribute to an imaginary hero ; Sea of Land; Congo; The Flight of Writers; The Writer's Death; Insomnia; Egypt; Nile Procession; Between Neighbour & Nation; From Sceits to Sohag; Eritrea; Whose Daughter?; Old Sayings.
- To a PenExposure; Go Crazy Over Me; Remembering Sahel; Gambia; Tribute to the Body-Carpenter; The African Penguins; Next to God, the Doctor; Earth Respect; Ghana; Extract from What Ola Says
- News from Harlem; New name; Bayonets; Nostalgia; Illicit Passion; Exiles; Mawu of the Waters; Suspended Interview; Soul to Song; Extract from Voices of Guns
- Introit; King Tut in America; Things my elders taught me; Guinea; One of the Lucky Few; Ivory Coast; (Untitled-Editor); Kenya; The Girl Died of Democracy; Power! Power for Blood?; Good-bye; Lesotho; The cessation of our tale; Mothapo; Liberia.
- The River is RisingComing Home: for Besie-Nyesuah; When Monrovia Rises; We Departed Homelands and We Came; Libya; White birds in a black space; Ladders; Malawi; My father's story; The sawyers; Straying far away; My father and I; Patched heart; The rain storm; The Kiss; Lament for a teller of tales lost in the season of AIDS; A song in spring; Haven't we forgotten something?; Cry of the Innocents; Requiem for Mbuya; What is Important?; Morocco; Mice of the Wheel of Loneliness; Everyday's Subsistence; Aphorisms; This ego that I have long forgotten; Poet; Of dream and joy; Namibia.
- Keep a Blank PageThree Clouds Above; Lagos Pavement ; Niger; The Message; Inmortality; Nigeria; Histories; Extract from Sacrament
- To The Janjaweed; Remembering; Narratives of Gold; Exile Island; I knew you were pregnant; A tribute to my mother; Mother: A Reflection; While I was far away in another country; Epistle; Africa; To Ken Saro-Wiwa, after reading Africa Kills Her Sun
- Waiting; Iroko in the wind; Flower from the tomb; Song of Lost Fruits; Tales of their Passing; Song of a maiden; A song for Okachamara Ossie Enekwe; Homeland; For Onoriode; Freetown; History Lesson.
- God punish you, Lord LugardLike a blood parable; Lagos; The giving of pears; The visit; The tailor and his strings; The silenced; Sequence (of desire); Association; The story of the masses; Peace forgotten; Back again; Black tale; Oil game; Down by the Niger; Marsh boy; The sea has two mouths; Stranger; A deep sense of feelling; The market women; Kill or be killed; The beauty of a woman; Unity of Existence; Dinner; Rage of a river; Silhouette; Lost poem; Countryside blues; Christmas day; Iya'Beji; A tryst; To my 400 Level Class of 2007, A wish; A love letter from connecticut; Rwanda ; Mwogo.