Download or read book My Favourite Poems Poetry From The Pen Of A Nigerian Teenager written by Nahna James and published by Nahna James. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Nahna James has written a five-series poetry collection titled My Favourite Poems: Poetry From The Pen Of A Nigerian Teenager. This is his debut collection of poetry and prose. It contains poems and essays on topics such as ; Nigeria, love, real feelings, sexuality, grief, nudism, bisexuality, loss, melancholy, loneliness, healing, marginalisation, self-love, unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that develops when we make an effort to understand ourselves. Many readers have referred to his writing as "life changing," "healing," and "part of their every day ritual." This book is a lovely reminder of the celebration of hope, an encounter with grace, a mending of the heart, a healing of scars, and a hymn of liberation, that one can always choose to transform themselves. It's just up to you to make a decision.
Download or read book The Moon Can t Stop My Love written by Nahna James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Moon Can't Stop My Love" is a metaphysical poem written by the Nigeria author and scientist Nahna James during his teenage years. Published in 2022.
Download or read book When All Is Said Done written by Nahna James and published by Nahna James. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When all is said & done is composed by the famous Nahna James. This is the first edition out of the five series of my favorite poems. This poetry book has a poem for everyone including religious, political, academic, and other social ones.
Download or read book Binyelum written by Nahna James and published by Nahna James. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2023 publication Biyelum by Nahna James is a spooky novelette. The story takes place in the fictional village of Idemmili and chronicles the struggles of a woman by the name of Binyelum who endured twelve years of being barren while also facing hostility and accusations from both her inlaws and the people of the village. The legend also has an unhappy and happy ending, with her barrenness being cured by the aquatic goddess Idemmili and Binyelum evil in-laws dying horribly as a result of the hardships they had cursed her.
Download or read book Far Can Be written by Angel Mary Anoop and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Far can be” by Angel Mary Anoop describes her thoughts about the world, life and it's possibilities. This book illustrates the speakers view on nature, people, beauty, and dreams through poems . The writers perspective on following dreams to achieve success, reminds the responsibility on nature, accept the people in the way they are, and finally a humorous outlook on the pandemic. It is clear that the readers gets astonished from this poetry by knowing the authors age.
Download or read book The January Children written by Safia Elhillo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani--an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.
Download or read book Nigger for Life written by Neal Hall (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critically acclaimed anthology of verse, Nigger For Life reflects the painful, later life discovery of Neal Hall, M.D., that in unspoken America, race is the one thing on which he is first judged, by which he is first measured, first against which his life and accomplishments are metered diminished value, dignity and equality. All of which have everything to do with accessing choice, opportunity, power and freedom in America. Nigger For Life reveals Dr. Hall's deep sense of betrayal combined with his fervent passion for life and equality for all. His words pierce through in candid, gut wrenching clarity. He bares his intelligence, wit and dreams.
Download or read book The Moon Can t Stop My Love written by Nahna James and published by Nahna James. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moon can't stop my love. It's a common fallacy that love, both sacred and profane, is the only genuine theme of lyric poetry. The metaphysical poems in this collection, which deal with topics like love, coming out, self-care, and bisexuality, provide the strongest support for this claim. The author Nahna James' most incisive and deeply altering events bear an impact on all of the poems in this collection.
Download or read book Wild Hundreds written by Nate A. Marshall and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.
Download or read book I Wore My Blackest Hair written by Carlina Duan and published by Little A. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Chinese American girlhood in all its confusion, love, and loss. In I Wore My Blackest Hair, Fulbright grant and Edna Meudt Memorial Award recipient Carlina Duan delivers an electric debut collection of poetry. With defiance and wild joy, Duan's poems wrestle with and celebrate ancestry and history, racial consciousness, and the growing pains of girlhood. They explore difficult truths with grace and power. I Wore My Blackest Hair is an honest portrait of a woman in-between--identities, places, languages, and desires--and her quest to belong. The speaker is specific in her self-definition, discovering and reinventing what it means to be a bold woman, what it means to be Chinese American, and what it means to grow into adulthood. Duan moves seamlessly from the personal to the imaginative to the universal, heralding a brilliant new voice in contemporary poetry.
Download or read book The Black Maria written by Aracelis Girmay and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas by early astronomers, The Black Maria investigates African diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American culture, and the question of human identity. Central to this project is a desire to recognize the lives of Eritrean refugees who have been made invisible by years of immigration crisis, refugee status, exile, and resulting statelessness. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry, Girmay's newest collection elegizes and celebrates life, while wrestling with the humanistic notion of seeing beyond: seeing violence, seeing grace, and seeing each other better. "to the sea" great storage house, history on which we rode, we touched the brief pulse of your fluttering pages, spelled with salt & life, your rage, your indifference your gentleness washing our feet, all of you going on whether or not we live, to you we bring our carnations yellow & pink, how they float like bright sentences atop your memory's dark hair Aracelis Girmay is the author of two poetry collections, Teeth and Kingdom Animalia, which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist for the NBCC Award. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award, she has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA. She currently teaches at Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and in Drew University's low residency MFA program. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she splits her time between New York and Amherst, Massachusetts.
Download or read book The Bells of Bournville Green written by Annie Murray and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the saga begun in Annie Murray's Chocolate Girls, and set in 1960s Birmingham, The Bells of Bournville Green is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging and loss . . . and of a young woman's search for transforming love. Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother's latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage, but all too soon she discovers that life with her old class mate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom and happiness. She finds herself on the streets, pregnant and homeless. She is taken in by her mother's old friends, but the love and security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy, which affects all the chocolate girls and their children and changes life forever . . . Continue the gritty family saga with Secrets of the Chocolate Girls.
Download or read book Lessons From Grandma written by Elizabeth O Ogunmodede and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LESSONS FROM GRANDMA is a mix of didactic bedtime stories told a teenage girl by a doting grandma. While they are meant to instill morals in the young, they also provide a mirror through which adults can examine life and its values.
Download or read book Earth and All the Stars written by Anne Rowthorn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-05-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism, and the religions of the indigenous people, 'Earth and All the Stars' is an anthology to save the Earth. Contributions range from the earliest recorded Hindu song (3000 B.C.E.) to the oldest known Celtic prayer to a contemporary poem by a Nigerian teenager. Also represented are ancient Chinese poems, Native American chants, and incantations from indigenous peoples. 'Earth and All the Stars' includes prayers, litanies, songs, and meditations from the world's great religious and cultural traditions. Such revered writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Albert Einstein, Joseph Addison, the Dali Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ernesto Cardenal, Theodore Roethke, Wendell Berry, and Gary Snyder are featured. Works by children who have participated in United Nations environmental programs round out this inspiring collection. Drawing from every continent, Anne Rowthorn has created a truly global anthology for the new millennium and for the thousands of people turning their attention to preserving the earth, to celebrating diversity, and to building bonds between the world's religions and cultures. This beautiful book has something for everyone - a perfect gift for people of all ages and all backgrounds in celebration of our Mother Earth.
Download or read book Naming the No Name Woman written by Jasmine An and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naming The No-Name Woman by Jasmine An is the winner of the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize and was chosen by contest judge, Keetje Kuipers. Praise for Naming The No-Name Woman: "Fiercely sexual and frank, the speaker in Naming The No-Name Woman mythologizes her experiences as a Chinese-American woman, never flinching from the various overlapping identities she encounters. I am reminded of the fearlessness of Kimiko Hahn's work, and am stirred anew by Jasmine An's resistance to any kind of shame that identity-chosen and unchosen-is eager to place on us. The speaker's foil in these poems is the actress Wong Liu Tsong (Anna May Wong), "the open secret, the uninvited guest, the hand resting / in the small of my back." Jasmine An does not so much make use of Wong in an effort to compare and contrast, but instead, she joins with her, blending voices and giving new and roaring life to that long and still unfolding story of race, gender, and sexuality in our country." - Keetje Kuipers In clear and luxurious language, Jasmine An navigates the slippery worlds of identity politics, botany, and desire-and pulls us toward an elegant horizon. I'm grateful for such a sumptuous and (not-so) safe passage of fine poems and the fragrant world that she's created in such a small space, one where "...even the saplings wear crabs as crowns." - Aimee Nezhukumatathil The poems in Jasmine An's transformative, erotic collection teeter on the impossible border between consuming and rebuffing, naming and not naming the enigmatic presence of Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong. Likewise, An's formal choices tread a wavering line between poetry and prose, just as the poems draw as much from theory as memory and feeling. "I am afraid of writing myself into a story that isn't meant for my survival," An writes, and yet she does, allowing herself to be exquisitely haunted by Wong's performance of Asian-American femaleness, her beauty and her precarious legacy. In the process, An's speaker incorporates the shadow. She swallows. - Diane Seuss
Download or read book The Trembling Tiber written by Neal Hall and published by L'Aleph. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hall's own craft and speak in direct, powerful new ways to universal contemporary issues of freedom and equality. The poems, by providing new prisms through which to view today's power constructs, challenge the reader to recognize the coded and decoded socio-political-economic struggles of marginalized people today.
Download or read book The Poems of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
