Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry written by Gerald Moore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Download or read book Modern Poetry from Africa written by Gerald Moore and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Poetry from Africa written by Gerald Moore and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1963 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry written by Gerald Moore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa," writes Gerald Moore, "has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama." Now revised and expanded, this comprehensive anthology features the work of ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries; thirty-one of the poets appear here for the first time. War songs, satires, and political protests jostle with poems about love, nature, and the surprises of life, offering a rich and wide-ranging body of creative work. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Echoes of Africa written by Ejorh Chinedu and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes of Africa, centers a great deal of mind strength on africa's traditional, cultural and customary values, revealing her past and present ordeal as prime focus. This way painting the picture of her future. Other issues like political, racial, religious, economic, civilization, science etc. around the world outside the boarders of Africa are also part of the subjects that are discussed in this book.
Download or read book Modern African Poetry and the African Predicament written by Romanus N. Egudu and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-10-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Poetry From Africa Classic Reprint written by Gerald Moore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Poetry From Africa A N G 0 L A Agostinho N eto Farewell at the Moment of i4s Antonio fi'acin to Monangamba 147 S O U T H A F R I C A To the Proud 151 The Echoes 152 152. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Modern Sudanese Poetry written by Adil Babikir and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context. Translated from Arabic, the collection addresses a wide range of themes—identity, love, politics, Sufism, patriotism, war, and philosophy—capturing the evolution of Sudan’s modern history and cultural intersections. Modern Sudanese Poetry features voices as diverse as the country’s ethnic, cultural, and natural composition. By bringing these voices together, Babikir provides a glimpse of Sudan’s poetry scene as well as the country’s modern history and post-independence trajectory.
Download or read book Refractive Africa written by Will Alexander and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the California Book Award in Poetry Three kinetically distilled long poems by the singular American poet who “transfigures ‘thought’ into a weave of lexical magic” (Philip Lamantia) “The poet is endemic with life itself,” Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. “This being the ballet of the forgotten,” he writes as diasporic witness, “of refracted boundary points as venom.” The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo—two writers whose luminous art suffered “colonial wrath through refraction.” A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as “charged aural colony” and “primal interconnection,” a “subliminal psychic force” with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander’s improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance—incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery.
Download or read book A Book of African Verse written by John O. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Modern West African Poets written by Romanus N. Egudu and published by New York : NOK Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heinemann Book of African Women s Poetry written by Stella Chipasula and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent.
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 Beautiful Pointless written by David Orr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Download or read book On Modern Poetry written by Guido Mazzoni and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.
Download or read book The Fate of Vultures written by Kofi Anyidoho and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of poems is from 4500 entries submitted for the 1988 BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award. The collection reflects the great depth and vigour of contemporary African poetry.
Download or read book Anthology of African Poetry written by Stephen Abara and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book of African-inspired Poetry Released Stephen Abara brings refined works of word art to the attention of the world, sharing the culture and challenges of Africa with the rest of humankind ONTARIO, Canada-- In 2008, Stephen Abara, at that time the president of the Glendon African Network, set out to organize a poetry competition within their university to further espouse understanding and support for the African people, their culture, and the challenges that face them. This book, ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN POETRY, is an outgrowth of that poetry competition, bringing the beauty, emotions, and sentiments of these Africa-inspired poets to a broader audience. In this charming, informative and highly educative book-Anthology of African Poetry-written in English and French by the young intellects at Glendon College, York University, readers will come to realize that one cannot run away from his or her problems. The past can always be found in the present, and has proven to be essential to oral tradition and literature. The poems in this book are both traditional, free verse and modern. They aim to provide readers of African descent and non-Africans with an enhanced understanding of African lifestyle and identity. Opening this book to any page will allow readers to discover a new poem to treasure or delight in all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of Africa's modern and contemporary poetry s vibrancy and abundance and depiction of its people home and abroad through arts and cultures.
