A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems

A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems
Author: J. Abala
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9956727539

A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems is a powerful collection of over forty prose poems. The poems cover an array of issues ranging from the crisis that ensued after the 2007-2008 elections in Kenya to other social issues: loss of identity, poverty, hopelessness, and AIDs. These poems are powerful, vivid, full of imagery, and delightful. Some begin tragically, but end with hope; they begin with an everyday event, but end with a philosophical question about the meaning of life; and others are not only disturbing, but also thought provoking. Abalas poetic maneuvers in this collection are bound to delight and fascinate any reader.

A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems

A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems
Author: Imali J. Abala
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2012
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9956727393

A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems is a powerful collection of over forty prose poems. The poems cover an array of issues ranging from the crisis that ensued after the 2007-2008 elections in Kenya to other social issues: loss of identity, poverty, hopelessness, and AIDs. These poems are powerful, vivid, full of imagery, and delightful. Some begin tragically, but end with hope; they begin with an everyday event, but end with a philosophical question about the meaning of life; and others are not only disturbing, but also thought provoking. Abala's poetic maneuvers in this collection are bound to delight and fascinate any reader.

Companion of Life

Companion of Life
Author: Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9956728934

This is a dense, erudite collection of finely crafted poems that powerfully reflect on vices such as war, bad governance, deforestation, dissipation, greed, oppression and cruelty. The poems also tackle other important phenomena of life such as love, anxiety, weather, time, politics, morality, economics, justice, culture and the environment. The virtue of these finely tuned poems does not only lie in their philosophical questioning, but their artistic merit and audacious reflection of issues pertinent in human life of all ages. While some of the poems provoke amusement and others tears, the corpus of the collection educates through entertainment. The poetry penetrates into the greater depths of the publics psyche to appraise, query, empty and expose their concerns in such a manner that should hopefully make those who cause or ignite human tribulations to rethink their actions and those haunted by the same to stay vigilant.

Sword & Citadel

Sword & Citadel
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 415
Release: 1994-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312890184

A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.

I Want to Dance & Other Poems

I Want to Dance & Other Poems
Author: Tanure Ojaide
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

A new poetic work by one of Nigeria's foremost contemporary poets, I Want to Dance is an extended song cycle, divided into three parts. In the song, the poetic voice undergoes a journey of experience from west to east and night to day and reflects upon moving away from and returning to home.

My Lattice, and Other Poems

My Lattice, and Other Poems
Author: Frederick George Scott
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Lattice, and Other Poems" by Frederick George Scott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Problem of God and Other Poems

The Problem of God and Other Poems
Author: Paul Leary
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2018-11-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1984565222

The poems contained in this volume are the fruit of a lifetime spent reading and writing poetry. Taken as a whole, these poems are a window into the heart and mind of the man who wrote them. They are offered to the reader as a bouquet of flowers, the kind of flowers one might find growing amid the ashes and cinders on the side of an old railroad track and tied up with string. If there is a unifying theme to be found in these poems, it is faith. It is not simply a belief in a supreme being, though that too can be found here, but faith in ourselves. It is a belief that if, during the dark times, we can keep faith with the divine fire, the life force that burns within us, we will emerge triumphant. The author hopes that his readers will find that faith written into his poems and, more importantly, in themselves.