Poetics of Rage. A Reading of Remi Raji's Poetry
ISBN: 9789789180158 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the nationalist imagination, artistic philosophy and the overtly political dimension of Remi Rajis poetry. It is an attempt to construct a sustained critical discourse on Rajis ongoing body of works. Raji is one of the major poetic voices on the Nigerian literary scene today. With the publication of his first collection, A Harvest of Laughters, in 1997 Raji has continued to strengthen his craft and vision through subsequent volumes: Webs of Remembrance (2000), Shuttlesongs: America - a Poetic Guided Tour (2003), Lovesong for My Wasteland (2005); and Gather My Blood Rivers...
This study explores the nationalist imagination, artistic philosophy and the overtly political dimension of Remi Rajis poetry. It is an attempt to con...
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You Look Like Something Blooming: A Memoir of Divination Seeds to Cultivate Your Feminine Garden Temple
ISBN: 9781511830607 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I love the way you write, India....Your words are sweet and honest. You do not attempt to coerce or seduce. You do not solicit a contract with misery but instead with power, purpose and love. Thank you." -S. Chatman _________________ A lovingly mystical and refreshingly radical literary spellbook that charms, heals, glows, amplifies, and supports healing, self-care, body transformations, and the divine feminine within us all. Part warm and witchy, part how-to grow more ass (rootworkers) and activate breast tissues (caretakers), part learning to embody love as abundance, part natural healing...
"I love the way you write, India....Your words are sweet and honest. You do not attempt to coerce or seduce. You do not solicit a contract with misery...
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Fuchsia
ISBN: 9780803285569 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw's Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disassembled, and nomadic self. Embedded in her poems are colors, elements, and sensations that evoke painful memories related to deep-seated remnants of trauma, war, and diaspora. Yet rooted in these losses and dangers also lie opportunities for mending and reflecting, evoking a distinct sense of hope. Elegant and traditional, the poems in Fuchsia examine what it means to both recall the past and continue onward with a richer understanding. Mahtem...
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw's Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disas...
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Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology
ISBN: 9789956763481 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry Progeria contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs..., on identity, Africanness (Blackness, Whiteness, Arabic, Asian...), culture, heritage, place, politics, (mis)governance, corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, love, the individual and many others. It travels from Cape to Cairo, Monrovia to Nairobi, rooms in the beautiful Moroccan Sahara desert, pastoral idyllic Savannas, the rainy equatorial...
Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry Progeria contain...
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Freestyle Prophecies & Sacred Ciphers: A Poetic Voice from My Generation
ISBN: 9781619844353 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mysterious. Exciting. Exotic. Thought provoking. Sensitive. Mr. Hudson comes on the scene in his maiden voyage bringing electrifying words and thoughts that are burning with energy, insight, and forcefulness; yet are also sensitive and passionate. This current works reveals a glimpse of his being a child of the '70's and '80's, as it relates to some of his more topical works. Earnest Hudson's truth is potent, whether the words are shouted or whispered. These words have value and are unmistakably vital to rendering an understanding and purity of one's self. Mr. Hudson has dared to bare his...
Mysterious. Exciting. Exotic. Thought provoking. Sensitive. Mr. Hudson comes on the scene in his maiden voyage bringing electrifying words and thought...
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The Black Maria
ISBN: 9781942683025 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for Aracelis Girmay: " Girmay's] every loss--she calls them estrangements--is a yearning for connection across time and place; her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." --O, The Oprah Magazine 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...
Praise for Aracelis Girmay: " Girmay's] every loss--she calls them estrangements--is a yearning for connection across time and place; her ...
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Pieces of My Soul, Vol.1
ISBN: 9780692648667 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Logotherapy
ISBN: 9780803290679 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi's poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl's penchant for her parents' keys to a warrior's hunt for words, Wa Ngugi's poems move back and forth between the personal and the political. In the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, the biting winds of Boston, and the heat of Nairobi, Wa Ngugi is always mindful of his physical experience of the environment. Ultimately it is among multiple homes, nations, and identities that he finds an uneasy peace.
Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi's poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. F...
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Herd of Tusks
ISBN: 9781478739661 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herd of Tusks. . . Though Baraka has been writing poetry since his teens, this is his debut.
Herd of Tusks. . . Though Baraka has been writing poetry since his teens, this is his debut.
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A Beautiful Mess
ISBN: 9781534749184 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's been said that romance isn't sugary or sickly sweet. It's a dark tormented fury, the tempest of passion and the despair of an idealism that one struggles to attain. Pyrokardia's debut -A Beautiful Mess- paints this quagmire that is emotion, its contradictions and the confusion on the path to finding love, weaved and warped to depict the obstacles faced when one must express true feelings. It's been said that romance isn't sugary or sickly sweet. It's a dark tormented fury, the tempest of passion and the despair of an idealism that on... |
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Beating the Graves
ISBN: 9780803299603 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political conditions and ecological challenges, veiled in the multiple meanings of poetic metaphor. Many poems explore the genre of praise poetry, which in Shona culture is a form of social currency for greeting elders and peers with a recitation of the characteristics of one's clan. Others reflect on how diasporic life shapes family relations. The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among conte...
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Obama-Mentum: An Anthology of Transformational Poetry
ISBN: 9789789183616 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obama-Mentum is a collection of poems that respond to the emergence in 2008 of Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States. From Obama's declaration at the Old Capitol in Springfield to contest, to his historic inauguration as President, this anthology captures people's experiences and emotions in words, rythm and performance. Poets from around the world and a some debut poets express their aspirations and expectations in a transformational presidency. Obama-Mentum is a collection of poems that respond to the emergence in 2008 of Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States. Fro... |
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After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780803296947 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. After the Ceremonies is arranged in three parts: new and uncollected poems, some of which Aidoo calls -misplaced or downright lost-; selections from Aidoo's An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems; and selections from Someone Talking to Sometime.
Although Aidoo is best known for her novels... Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of coloniali...
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Lace Bone Beast
ISBN: 9781539855866 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is emptiness. Here is a mouth after a recent excavation, black with soot, devoid of kisses. Here are hands, trembling against the soft ache of morning, here are eyes, wet, wide, half-full of sky and loneliness. Here is belly, back, femur, spine, ragged and smooth all at once, all at once. Here are dreams, ink black and speckled, lost behind the eyes. Here is a muted elegy, crow's feet feathered over the eyes like lace. Here are the last strains of a dirge, wild, discordant, free.
Here is emptiness. Here is a mouth after a recent excavation, black with soot, devoid of kisses. Here are hands, trembling against the soft ache of mo...
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Broken Wishbones and Empty Spaces
ISBN: 9781539668152 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is not for healing, it is a shelter for your breaking you will leave but you'll leave whole. This prolific collection of poems; -Broken Wishbones & Empty Spaces- explains what it means to be broken, how it feels to be broken, and how it feels to thirst for love while being broken. It is a book that understands and justifies the melancholy in love. Yet amidst this hurt, it still acknowledges love as a good thing, if only we could find it, give it, and take it the right way. -Broken Wishbones & Empty Spaces- heals a reader simply by acknowledgment....
This book is not for healing, it is a shelter for your breaking you will leave but you'll leave whole. This prolific collection of poems; |
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What I Want You To Know
ISBN: 9780692836934 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This voice could no longer remain silent. "What I Want You To Know" is comprised of what has been seen, observed, learned, and experienced. Brutal awakening in understanding the symptoms of displacement, racism, and oppression that is spilled out, and affects the entire world by what is perpetuated in the United States. A society that has yet to acknowledge its dealings in partaking in the core of these issues. Cyclical affects that skews history, to bury the truth of what we know. Today, this will no longer remain so.
This voice could no longer remain silent. "What I Want You To Know" is comprised of what has been seen, observed, learned, and experienced. Brutal awa...
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Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology
ISBN: 9789956764891 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Think of Lampedusa
ISBN: 9781496200426 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josue Guebo's poems combine elements of history and mythology.
Guebo considers the Mediterranean not only as a literal space but also as a space of expectation, anxiety, hope, and anguish for... A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lamped...
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Good Grief: Sixty Days with Sixty Poems
ISBN: 9781945823985 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the days and months following his wife’s death, Tanzania-born Alinuru Yasin turned to poetry—and tapped into a powerful experience shared by us all. Inspired by his desire to comfort those suffering from hardships both large and small, he explored the universality of his own emotions around mourning. The result of his work, Good Grief: Sixty Days with Sixty Poems, is part reflection on loss, part celebration of life.
Told through the voice of a Swahili storyteller, this debut collection teaches us to savor our relationships, our hobbies, and even... In the days and months following his wife’s death, Tanzania-born Alinuru Yasin turned to poetry—and tapped into a powerful experience s... |
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Good Grief: Sixty Days with Sixty Poems
ISBN: 9781945823992 / Swahili / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Swahili/English Edition In the days and months following his wife’s death, Tanzania-born Alinuru Yasin turned to poetry—and tapped into a powerful experience shared by us all. Inspired by his desire to comfort those suffering from hardships both large and small, he explored the universality of his own emotions around mourning. The result of his work, Good Grief: Sixty Days with Sixty Poems, is part reflection on loss, part celebration of life.
Told through the voice of a Swahili storyteller, this debut collection teaches us to savor our... Swahili/English Edition In the days and months following his wife’s death, Tanzania-born Alinuru Yasin turned to poetry—and tappe... |
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