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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2003.
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.