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Love Gifts /

This book is a love sequence: the poetic rendering of the relationship between the minstrel and his muse over a long period. The poet uses the relationship of the two personages to investigate the human condition; hence the poems deal with dreams, desires, frustrations, hopes, contentment, and seeki...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Rochelle, New York : African Heritage Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The Landmark -- If I Were -- Love Lesson -- The Uwara Suite -- Through You -- There -- Over Here -- I Will Deify You -- If It Were Not for You -- When She Gave the Word -- You Are -- They Begin Tendentiously -- You Have Taken Steps -- Inevitably -- See -- Three Times I Call -- Touch -- On This Dawn -- I Trip -- All Around Me -- If Others Had -- Nobody Knows -- You Don't Have to Look Out For the Light -- Since You Entered -- Bridal Song -- I Stop by the Streamside -- Now That Their Smile is Infinite -- You Are the Sun -- The Sirens' Assault -- You Tell Me -- A Walk in the Rain -- For Saying 'Thank You' -- Two Probing the Contours -- I Hear Your Penetrating Call -- I Paint You -- I Will Wait Out -- I Abandon Chores -- I Am Looking for a Cure -- My Beloved Sent Word -- As the Chant Rises -- The Wind Blows -- His Song Gathered Timbre -- The Cry of the Water-Bird -- We Read the Book of Dreams -- Four is Not a Random Number -- Wounds However Deep Heal -- The Fruiting Tree -- Sun and Moon in Mock Battle -- Love in a Time of Grief and Strife -- If You Were to Kill Me -- When You Are Silent -- Aftermath -- We Live in a Full Moon -- Butterflies in My Heart -- On This Valentine's Day -- After -- Full Cycle -- Perhaps No Court Can Hear This -- What If -- In Full View -- The Jury's Verdict : On Sunday If You Feel Your Partner's Hurt -- I Exorcize -- I Have Asked Myself -- I Want to Tell Everyone -- When You Waited for My Call -- In Contentment -- Occupy Me -- The Challenge. 
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