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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
ISBN: 9780140424720 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa
"Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa," write... |
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75,62 zł |
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Ejo, 7: Poems, Rwanda, 1991-1994
ISBN: 9780299170240 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These poems explore the Rwandan holocaust through the culture, myths and customs that Derick Burleson absorbed whilst living there.
These poems explore the Rwandan holocaust through the culture, myths and customs that Derick Burleson absorbed whilst living there.
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58,37 zł |
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Unmanifest Poems
ISBN: 9780595126729 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,93 zł |
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Deje, Why Did You Die?: A Book of Deadly Poems, Immortal Plays and a Living Tradition
ISBN: 9780595161690 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,24 zł |
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The Children of Signatures
ISBN: 9780595312030 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Children of Signatures" embodies mixed feelings of love and disappointment. While it expresses profound love for Africa, it also portrays the problems facing the continent as self-induced. With flashback into history, it draws parallels with the present state of the continent and challenges Africa to view its problems from a moral mirror.
Simple in language, rich in depth and imagery; the collection also touches on other aspects of human life. "The Children of Signatures" embodies mixed feelings of love and disappointment. While it expresses profound love for Africa, it also portrays the pro...
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42,08 zł |
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Atumpan: Drum-Talk
ISBN: 9780595334773 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Atumpan: Drum-Talk," Okoampa-Ahoofe evokes the primal and visceral essence of rhythm in words. The poetic voice captured in this ebullient anthology is at once poignant and perfusive.
In "Atumpan: Drum-Talk," Okoampa-Ahoofe evokes the primal and visceral essence of rhythm in words. The poetic voice captured in this ebullient antholo...
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57,46 zł |
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Empty Words: some sort of poetry
ISBN: 9780595343621 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world has been set on fire by not only the current wars over resources but also natural disasters like the Tsunami dominate today's times. Read how world leaders exploit any event to push through their hidden agendas.
The world has been set on fire by not only the current wars over resources but also natural disasters like the Tsunami dominate today's times. Read ho...
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38,24 zł |
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Pop Poetry: Story Rhymes
ISBN: 9780595359325 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a freelance writer and reporter comes the first volume of "Story Rhymes" influenced by modern poetry, nursery rhymes, postcard inscriptions and popular music. Simple words direct and colorful aim to tell a complete and true story of some aspects of daily life as it revolves around us. Touching the heart "Pop Poetry"'s light and easy read allows you the chance to take your thoughts far away.
From a freelance writer and reporter comes the first volume of "Story Rhymes" influenced by modern poetry, nursery rhymes, postcard inscriptions and p...
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42,08 zł |
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Nananom: Foremothers
ISBN: 9780595368167 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PRAISE FOR OKOAMPA-AHOOFE'S POETRY:
"Okoampa-Ahoofe...has a profound respect for language and the use of words. His works reflect a very patient craftsman choosing words to express his thoughts, chiseling and re-chiseling to get to the right meaning, tone, color, etc...." PRAISE FOR OKOAMPA-AHOOFE'S POETRY:
"Okoampa-Ahoofe...has a profound respect for language and the use of words. His works reflect a very patient cr... |
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57,46 zł |
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A Turning Point: Poetry from the Heart
ISBN: 9780595405411 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When one grows, changes must be made. "A Turning Point" occurs when one is fed up with their current situation. Often times, these occur due to painful, happy or indifferent life situations. Whether you are in love, out of love, damaged or in between "A Turning Point" will speak to your soul. Funny, witty and encouraging, these poems are for your full enjoyment and reflection. It is truly a journey to healing!
When one grows, changes must be made. "A Turning Point" occurs when one is fed up with their current situation. Often times, these occur due to painfu...
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38,24 zł |
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The Odyssey of My Corpus: A Collection of Poems
ISBN: 9780595419555 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Annette A. Aletor delivers a rhythmic blend of passionately soulful and eloquently written literary pieces, taking you through a journey of poetry that celebrates feminity, afrocentrism, sexuality, and passion for life.
Memorable poems like "An Ode to Eve," "Mankind," "Fugitive," "For you," and "Africa" will push your appreciation for poetry to a greater level. "Passionate and refreshing are just a couple of words to describe this cohesive literary journey by Annette A. Aletor. Her poems take you deep within her heart and her homeland. Her style is unique, her words, captivating and... Annette A. Aletor delivers a rhythmic blend of passionately soulful and eloquently written literary pieces, taking you through a journey of poetry tha...
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38,24 zł |
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Republic of Love: Selected Poems in English and Arabic
ISBN: 9780710306807 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By far the most popular poet of the Arab World, popular in the true sense of the word. The late Nizar Kabbani's selected poems appear here in English for the first time. So popular is he that one of his poems is the greatest love song in the Arab world, recorded by the legendary Egyptian singer Um Khaslsoum and played on virtually every taxi's radio across the Middle East.
By far the most popular poet of the Arab World, popular in the true sense of the word. The late Nizar Kabbani's selected poems appear here in English ...
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705,83 zł |
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Idanre and Other Poems
ISBN: 9780809013524 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,02 zł |
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Castaway
ISBN: 9780822324218 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Castaway "Yvette Christianse presents an epic yet fragmented poetic story set off the coast of Africa on the island of St. Helena: Napoleon Bonaparte's final place of exile, a port of call for the slave trade, and birthplace of the poet's grandmother. Amid echoes of racialized identity and issues of displacement, the poems in "Castaway" speak with a multiplicity of voices--from Fernao Lopez (the island's first exile) and Napoleon to that of a contemporary black woman. "Castaway" is simultaneously a song of discovery, an anthem of conquest, and a tortured lamentation of exiles and...
In "Castaway "Yvette Christianse presents an epic yet fragmented poetic story set off the coast of Africa on the island of St. Helena: Napoleon Bonapa...
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111,91 zł |
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Kalakuta Republic: A Book of Poetry
ISBN: 9780863563225 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria s military regime in the late 1980s. "This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria s milita... |
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40,94 zł |
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Dawnsong!: The Epic Memory of Askia Toure
ISBN: 9780883782095 / Angielski / Miękka / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poems in this collection address the cultural and spiritual needs of Black people. In Dawnsong Toure successfully develops a heroic poetry that creates its own artistic matrix. In these poems Toure takes the reader back to ancient Egypt and, at the same time, demonstrates the relevance of Egyptian history and, at the same time, demonstrates the relevance of Egyptian history and mythology to the lives of contemporary Africans on the continent and in the diaspora.
The poems in this collection address the cultural and spiritual needs of Black people. In Dawnsong Toure successfully develops a heroic poetry that c...
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49,77 zł |
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Echoes of the Sunbird: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry
ISBN: 9780896801738 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a broad overview of the work of seven of Africa s leading poets. Five of them have received international recognition: Niyi Osundare and Chinua Achebe, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Osundare and Antonio Jacinto, the Noma Prize; and Jose Craveirinha, the Camoes Prize. The poems concern political, personal, and social themes and are written with aesthetic simplicity and lyricism. The contributors believe that poets, rather than being exiles from their communities, are prophets, seers, and singers and have a place in everyday life.
Most of the poems have been published... This volume presents a broad overview of the work of seven of Africa s leading poets. Five of them have received international recognition: Niyi Osund...
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82,71 zł |
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Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa
ISBN: 9780932826640 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Before the Palm Could Bloom, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought: 200,000 dead -- including 50,000 children -- and 750,000 citizens forced to take refuge in neighboring countries. And in poems of village life and customs, the city life of Monrovia, the rites of childhood and adolescence, Wesley records for the reader a world that has been forever changed. Wesley's poems incorporate many African voices, and range in tone from sorrow and longing, to humor and ironic wit. Wesley teaches African literature and other subjects at...
In Before the Palm Could Bloom, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought: 200,000 dead -- i...
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53,55 zł |
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The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems
ISBN: 9780962886416 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'In this new volume, I have tried to demonstrate that it is possible for the African poet to do very many things.... Part of my mission is to recognise in our African world the existence of what I call the deep dance, the dance of planets and of the revolution.' Nwankwo is a Nigerian poet, critic and professor of literature. He has penned several volumes of poetry including Toward the Area Zone (1988) for which he won The Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize, and a critical study of the works of Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
'In this new volume, I have tried to demonstrate that it is possible for the African poet to do very many things.... Part of my mission is to recognis...
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124,30 zł |
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I Want to Dance and Other Poems
ISBN: 9780962886454 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
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, t...
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124,30 zł |
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