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I will fly : a collection of poems /
I Will Fly is a collection of 52 poems which bring to life a story of struggle and hope, the struggle of ordinary Cameroonians who daily entertain hardship, and of English-speaking Cameroonians born into a minority population. Disgruntlement leads to protests; but what happens when the protests fail...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bamenda :
Langaa Research,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Book I Part 1: For Food in a Spoon; The Burden of Sight; Brains in Bottles; Blackout; Part 2: Toxic English; Anglo!; A Questionable Prescription in My Mouth; The Dark Side of Night; P for Presbytery, Priest and People; Concealed Tracks; God's Israel; Book II Waste; A Noiseless Phone; Book III Accusation; You Sink the Nation; Book IV Protests; Stocking Up For Protest Days; The Country Is Not People; No Golden Eggcups for the Morrow; Book V Part 1: Resignation; Holy Dust; Wait; Still; Part 2: Escape Section One: Immigration.
- I Will FlyA Dream Too Far; Leave; Grandmother's Luggage; Treacherous Hands; On Once Familiar Streets; Paper beyond Papers; Section Two: Mortality; Quitting By the Fast Lane; A Song of Many Pitches; The Doomed Day; No Glory in the Morning; The Snail Shell; That Little House at the End of the Road; Enemy in the Shadows; Part 3: Adventure; Behind My Camera; Indispensable Intruders; Poet's Block; The Words of Women; Leave The Door Open; Part 4: Romance; Living in Him; Three Women in a Pair of Shoes; The Woman in Me; Unattached and Unavailable; G'glo; Saturday Evening with Girlfriends.
- From Brother To BrotherOh Woman; The Longest March; Part 5: Hope; Awakening the Stars; Sit To Stand; I Want Never To Wish For Yesterday; Toss To a Friend; No Need for a Rocket; Now I Remember How to Pray; Book VI Light for Africa; Black and Gold; Back cover.