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Woman Unfolding
ISBN: 9781920397333 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are poems of unfolding. A brain in limbo; a mother's warnings, unheeded; the diving and swimming in life; fiances who evolve into husbands; a child not yet conceived; poems birthed so that the reader follows the evolution of a word into something tangible, erect, living. The poems in Woman Unfolding recognise the significance of poetry - its existence in the ordinary, as well as in the remarkable yet quiet evolutions we undergo through existing.
These are poems of unfolding. A brain in limbo; a mother's warnings, unheeded; the diving and swimming in life; fiances who evolve into husbands; a ch...
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Gumiguru
ISBN: 9781847772572 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gumiguru is the tenth month of the Shona calendar--a month of dryness and heat before the first rains fall and rejuvenate the land. Togara Muzanenhamo's second collection is a cycle of poems distilling the experiences of a decade into one calendar year, framed through the natural and agricultural landscapes of Zimbabwe. The book stands as both an elegy for the poet's father and a hymn to the veldt, the farms, the villages, and the men and women whose lives are interwoven with the land and the changing seasons.
Gumiguru is the tenth month of the Shona calendar--a month of dryness and heat before the first rains fall and rejuvenate the land. Togara Muzanenh... |
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Canons and Connections: A Network Theory Approach to the Study of Literary Systems with Specific Reference to Afrikaans Poetry
ISBN: 9780990447160 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study takes a new look at the literary system from the perspective of network theory, and discusses who the key players are in the contemporary Afrikaans poetry network from 2000 to 2012.
The study of literary systems or fields is a well-established approach, particularly in reference to Afrikaans literature. Of course, agents in social systems make their own decisions, but as a whole, decisions about what is considered literature are made within the system itself. No single entity can be responsible for a poets position in the center of the network: It is through the combined efforts... This study takes a new look at the literary system from the perspective of network theory, and discusses who the key players are in the contemporary A...
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In the Heat of the Shadows: South African Poetry 1996-2013
ISBN: 9780987028235 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Heat of Shadows: South African Poetry 1996-2013 presents work by 32 poets and includes some translations from Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho and Xitsonga. This collection follows on from Denis Hirson's 1997 anthology The Lava of this Land: South African Poetry 1960-1996. South African poetry today is charged with restlessness, bursting with diversity. Gone is the intense inward focus required to deal with a situation of systematic oppression, the enclosing effort of concentration on a single predicament. While politics and identity continue to be central themes, the poetry since...
In the Heat of Shadows: South African Poetry 1996-2013 presents work by 32 poets and includes some translations from Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Ses...
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Heaven Water Blood
ISBN: 9781500408923 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Darling, there is a small heaven inside you.
Darling, there is a small heaven inside you.
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Poetry 99 (a book with DVD) presents the best of a week-long series of live readings by South African poets that took place in Grahamstown in 1999. Even in their written form, many South African poems carry the intonations of the poet's voice, but seeing and hearing poets reading their own work has a particular vitality. Poetry 99 is a valuable resource for poets, readers, and teachers of poetry. The twenty poets featured are: Robert Berold, Vonani Bila, Ingrid De Kok, Alan Finlay, Richard Fox, Louise Green, Colleen Higgs, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Nosipho Kota, Jethro Louw, Joan Metelerkamp,...
Poetry 99 (a book with DVD) presents the best of a week-long series of live readings by South African poets that took place in Grahamstown in 1999. Ev...
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A Queen Deferred
ISBN: 9781503201668 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Queen Deferred is a compilation of life reflections through poetry. It brings to life the journey of many and presents a heart filled artistic expression of a variety of human experiences. A Queen Deferred is socially conscious and often politically in correct. It is tear jerking as one will find herself or himself close to any number of the poems within. We are one, and life happens. Understanding, compassion and the will to get involved comes forth through, A Queen Deferred.
A Queen Deferred is a compilation of life reflections through poetry. It brings to life the journey of many and presents a heart filled artistic expre...
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Poems of Cabin and Field
ISBN: 9781511460200 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poems of Cabin and Field by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poems of Cabin and Field by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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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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You Who Cross My Path
ISBN: 9781938160875 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first U.S. publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli poetry, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture. Preliminary Background Words My mother my mother
from a village of shrubs green of a different green. From a bird's nest producing milk sweeter than... This first U.S. publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocati...
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Castaway
ISBN: 9780822323860 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
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...
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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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Solitude of Five Black Moons
ISBN: 9780940713215 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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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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