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Fragmented Melodies
ISBN: 9789956558100 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fragmented Melodies is a seminal, introspective work of exceptional freshness and contemplative diction transmitted in an enriched style that immediately grasps the reader's attention. Between Part I (Medusa's Spell) and Part IV (Homebound) the reader is instantly immersed into a multifaceted poetic universe that is both enigmatic and mystifying, reminiscent of Jared Angira's Silent Voices. Wakai's personae are inimitable and diverse, oftentimes imbued with passionate sensuality, despondent lives, and brutal nostalgia-the nostalgia of prison walls, defeated idealism, and incarcerated voices...
"Fragmented Melodies is a seminal, introspective work of exceptional freshness and contemplative diction transmitted in an enriched style that immedia...
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Coils of Mortal Flesh
ISBN: 9789956558148 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the single voice of the omnipresent persona who appears to be searching for a collective voice, some kind of order or rhythm that would impose meaning to life. Reading the poems constitutes an individual journey. This poetic journey from Awakening that takes the reader to Moonlight Spells & Wreaths and leads her/him through Laments to the Epilogue is a continuous movement in the search for humanity's existence. As a metaphor of self-discovery, the poetic quest is both an expression of, and a search for mankind's elusive...
The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the single voice of the omnipresent persona who appears to be searching for a collec...
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Once as Lovers
ISBN: 9780595474615 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Once As Lovers," is a steering body of collective poems that effortlessly captures the endearment of love and the aggressive spiritual power of sexuality. The book naturally offers varying perspectives and views that take shape all their own. It contains poetry that was written during the course of numerous encounters and exposure to relationships. It is a book for aspiring and engaged lovers of all things.
Chameleon in it's intentions, "Once As Lovers" suggest the most indulgent of experiences. This book provokes a gamut of different emotions and warms thirsty hearts. The author... "Once As Lovers," is a steering body of collective poems that effortlessly captures the endearment of love and the aggressive spiritual power of sexua...
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54,63 |
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Pidgin Stew and Sufferhead
ISBN: 9789781298370 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1982, this book of poetry has been reissued in 2007, being in continuous demand. Thirty six poems form a kaleidoscope of the Nigerian condition, written largely in Pidgin English. Notes on the poems provide a context for language, interpreting the idiom, giving local cultural context, and some factual explanation of events which illuminate the poems.
First published in 1982, this book of poetry has been reissued in 2007, being in continuous demand. Thirty six poems form a kaleidoscope of the Nigeri...
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Niyi Osundare is one of Nigeria's most prominent writers, and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1991. Moonsongs won Honourable Mention in the 1989 Noma Award. The main body of the poems is given harmony by being centred on the image of the moon. Thirty-six poems explore original themes and imagery, enhanced by the rhythms of the language.
Niyi Osundare is one of Nigeria's most prominent writers, and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 19...
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157,08 |
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Talking Poetry
ISBN: 9780864862464 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes poetry and ways of talking about poetry. Useful to people who are required to talk about poetry - teachers, students and scholars, this book would also a helpful guide for beginner poets.
Describes poetry and ways of talking about poetry. Useful to people who are required to talk about poetry - teachers, students and scholars, this book...
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44,66 |
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Their Champagne Party Will End!
ISBN: 9789956558193 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,68 |
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Green Rape. Poetry for the Environment
ISBN: 9789956558483 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Green Rape: Poetry for the Environment is an anthology of poems written in strong support of environmental literacy. Each poem is the poets cry of protest against the rape of natural and built environments. The anthology examines a wide range of issues including the clash of global capitalism with environmental activism. It takes a close look at the major themes in international discourse on environmental degradation, climate change, renewable energy sources, global warming, Gene technology, biodiversity and more. The poet dispels a number of myths, notably the existence of an inexhaustible...
Green Rape: Poetry for the Environment is an anthology of poems written in strong support of environmental literacy. Each poem is the poets cry of pr...
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141,86 |
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Song of My Soul: Poems by An American Man of Color to Commemorate the 2019 Harlem Renaissance Centennial
ISBN: 9780595470259 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Evans, a former Baltimore newspaperman, uses the power of poetry to present a unique look at the decency and respectability of black Americans' lives before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement in tribute to the Harlem Renaissance. However, Mr. Evans does not stop there. Uniquely, writing as a black man, he also offers poems that express his desire to see a nation that is inclusive and fair to all Americans, not overlooking the working-class white people who have been left out of Martin Luther King's dream. The Harlem Renaissance has taken its rightful place alongside the many...
Paul Evans, a former Baltimore newspaperman, uses the power of poetry to present a unique look at the decency and respectability of black Americans' l...
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113,38 |
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Song of My Soul: Poems by An American Man of Color to Commemorate the 2019 Harlem Renaissance Centennial
ISBN: 9780595711635 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Evans, a former Baltimore newspaperman, uses the power of poetry to present a unique look at the decency and respectability of black Americans' lives before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement in tribute to the Harlem Renaissance. However, Mr. Evans does not stop there. Uniquely, writing as a black man, he also offers poems that express his desire to see a nation that is inclusive and fair to all Americans, not overlooking the working-class white people who have been left out of Martin Luther King's dream. The Harlem Renaissance has taken its rightful place alongside the many...
Paul Evans, a former Baltimore newspaperman, uses the power of poetry to present a unique look at the decency and respectability of black Americans' l...
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152,54 |
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Spirit Brides PB
ISBN: 9781857548525 / Angielski / Miękka / 71 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a collection of the author's poems, taking us from his vanished childhood in Zimbabwe to Europe, where he lived for some years, evoking fractured worlds both familiar and unfamiliar, real and surreal.
Presents a collection of the author's poems, taking us from his vanished childhood in Zimbabwe to Europe, where he lived for some years, evoking fract...
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52,03 |
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Beware the Drives
ISBN: 9789956558858 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,68 |
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K'cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems
ISBN: 9789956558742 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In K'cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems, Bill Ndi vociferously bemoans the fate of a world in which the good and the evil are intimate bedfellows; a world wherein miscreants proceed with nauseating impunity to trample on innocence. The poet, a widely traveled scholar in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, currently resides in Australia where he is hailed as an Ambassador of the Peace. Informed by his experience as a child of the world - being at home away from home and thinking of home, Bill Ndi serves the reader with a delicious platter of poetic maze which to him is synonymous to the...
In K'cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems, Bill Ndi vociferously bemoans the fate of a world in which the good and the evil are intimate bedfello...
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141,86 |
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African Poems of Thomas Pringle
ISBN: 9780869806869 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on Thomas Pringle's intellectual and emotional quest for progressive conduct and action, which is his great contribution to South African literature.
Focuses on Thomas Pringle's intellectual and emotional quest for progressive conduct and action, which is his great contribution to South African lite...
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44,66 |
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Requiem
ISBN: 9780958454216 / Angielski / Miękka / 67 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Metelerkamp's fifth book of poems was written after the suicide of her mother. The book is a sequence of poems, with Latin subtitles taken from sections of the Requiem Mass. The relationship between the poem and the mass is often oblique, tangential, iron
Metelerkamp's fifth book of poems was written after the suicide of her mother. The book is a sequence of poems, with Latin subtitles taken from sectio...
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Earth Stepper/The Ocean Is Very Shallow
ISBN: 9780958454223 / Angielski / Miękka / 85 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a redesigned second printing of Seitlhamo Motsapi's acclaimed Earthstepper/The Ocean is Very Shallow, first published in 1996. *** "A very far cry from official New South African pietistic discourse of reconciliation, this collection brilliantly fuses pan-Africanist militancy, romantic spirituality, and scathing attack on neo-colonialism in its global and local forms. The political urgency is never compromised by empty rhetorical posturing or aesthetic banality: this is a rich, experimental poetry, raining down fresh imagery, complex conceits, carefully patterned to produce a volume...
This is a redesigned second printing of Seitlhamo Motsapi's acclaimed Earthstepper/The Ocean is Very Shallow, first published in 1996. *** "A very far...
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Ten Flapping Elbows Mama
ISBN: 9780958454261 / Angielski / Miękka / 93 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the long-awaited first book of poetry by Khulile Nxumalo, one of the most innovative younger poets of South Africa. *** Khulile Nxumalo was born in Diepkloof, Soweto, in 1971. He lives in Johannesburg with his partner and two children, and pays the rent by working in television as a writer, researcher, and director. His poems have been published in South Africa, Canada, the UK, and the US.
This is the long-awaited first book of poetry by Khulile Nxumalo, one of the most innovative younger poets of South Africa. *** Khulile Nxumalo was bo...
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I Lost A Poem
ISBN: 9780958454292 / Angielski / Miękka / 57 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poems in Mzwandile Matiwana's first book cover a range of subjects, including love, prison, poverty, and religion. Mzwandile Matiwana's poems are deeply felt lyrics, displaying surprising shifts of tone. Many of them were written from prison. They cover a range of experience - love, prison life, poverty, religious feeling - with rawness and delicacy. *** Mzwandile Matiwana was born in 1967 in Port Elizabeth, and writes in both English and Xhosa. His poems have been published in Kotaz, New Coin, Timbila, Botsotso, Fidelities, donga, southernrain, Carapace and Sweet. He is a member of the...
The poems in Mzwandile Matiwana's first book cover a range of subjects, including love, prison, poverty, and religion. Mzwandile Matiwana's poems are ...
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54,59 |
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Ants Moving The House In Millimetres
ISBN: 9780958491518 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nadine Botha is a poet who works in forms entirely her own. Her poems have been published in poetry journals such as New Coin and Botsotso. Ants Moving the House Millimetres is her latest work.
Nadine Botha is a poet who works in forms entirely her own. Her poems have been published in poetry journals such as New Coin and Botsotso. Ants Movin...
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54,59 |
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It All Begins : Poems from Postliberation South Africa
ISBN: 9781869140083 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It All Begins is a collection of poems in English by over fifty South African poets (and some Zimbabweans), with several contemporary translations from /Xam, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Xitsonga and Zulu. All the poems were published in the poetry journal New Coin between 1989 and 1999. These poems were written over a period which included the brutal last years of apartheid, the release of Mandela, the country's first democratic elections, and the disturbing trends of the post-Mandela era. During this time the violence of previous decades continued, although in different forms, while the poor became...
It All Begins is a collection of poems in English by over fifty South African poets (and some Zimbabweans), with several contemporary translations fro...
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99,30 |
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