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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t My Birth at the Doorpost -- |t I Used to Own This Town -- |t Get Out of Here, Boys! -- |t Requiem for Auntie -- |t Today Is Already Too Much -- |t For Marie Antoinette -- |t In the Beginning -- |t This Is What I Tell My Daughter -- |t War Baby -- |t The Moon Poem -- |t They Want to Rise Up -- |t Elegy to West Point Fishermen -- |t Coming Home to Iyeeh -- |t A Dirge for Charles Taylor -- |t Around the Mountains -- |t Elegy for Dessie -- |t Transfiguration -- |t When I Meet Moses -- |t For Robert Frost -- |t The Corrupt Shall Rise Incorruptible -- |t We've Done It All -- |t The World in Long Lines -- |t All the Soft Things of Earth -- |t Becoming Ebony -- |t For My Husband -- |t Wandering Child -- |t Small Desires -- |t When I Rise to Look the Sunshine in Its Bare Eye -- |t A Poem for My Father -- |t In This Town -- |t My Neighbors' Dogs -- |t A Letter to My Brother Coming to America -- |t My New Insurance Plan -- |t These Are the Reasons the Living Live -- |t M-T, Turning Thirteen -- |t Winter Street -- |t A Snowwoman in Her Dying Hour -- |t I Now Wander -- |t I Am Acquainted with Waiting. |
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