An African Thunderstorm & Other Poems
Author | : David Rubadiri |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9789966253385 |
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Author | : David Rubadiri |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9789966253385 |
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.
Author | : Ben Okri |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2024-02-13 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1635423112 |
This moving poetry collection from the Booker Prize–winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the complex issues that have burdened Africa. First published in 1992, Ben Okri’s remarkable debut collection features poems that are now considered classics and taught in schools and universities worldwide. Here he plays with the mystique of the African continent, countering simplistic narratives of suffering that have been imposed on it with vibrant, nuanced portraits of the traditions and resilience of African peoples. An invaluable window onto Okri’s experiences as a Nigerian immigrant to the United Kingdom and as a writer discovering his calling, these poems also speak to universal truths about love, injustice, and the search for meaning.
Author | : Kevin Young |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0375711880 |
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me”), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life’s passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in “Crowning,” he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing “her face / full of fire, then groaning your face / out like a flower, blood-bloom,/ crocused into air.” Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking “What good/are wishes if they aren’t / used up?” while understanding “How to listen / to what’s gone.” Young’s frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life’s mysteries.
Author | : Isaac Irabor Elimimian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Nigerian poetry (English) |
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Author | : David Cook |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9789966460196 |
The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.
Author | : Gerald Moore |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141912901 |
'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.
Author | : June Jordan |
Publisher | : Serpent's Tail |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2023-01-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1800814828 |
In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional and literal with an outstretched hand. Haruko traces the faltering arc of a passionate love affair with another woman while Love Poems encompasses relationships with men and women, political resistance, the need for self-care in a demanding, uncaring world and apocalyptic visions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. A contemporary of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, June Jordan's spectacular poetry remains profoundly politically potent, lyrically inventive and breathtakingly romantic. First published in 1994, Haruko/ Love poems is a vitally important modern classic.
Author | : Wayne Visser |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 095708174X |
This creative collection brings together Africa poems by South African poet and writer, Wayne Visser, including the ever popular "I Am An African", as well as old favourites like "Women of Africa", "I Know A Place in Africa", "Prayer for Africa" and "African Dream". The anthology celebrates the luminous continent and its rainbow people. The updated 5th Edition includes new poems like "Africa Untamed" and "Land of the Sun".