Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry

Name: Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry
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ISBN: 9780435906801

ISBN-10: 0435906801

ISBN-13: 9780435906801

Edition: 1995

Authors: Stella Chipasula, Frank Chipasula

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The first collection of its kind. This volume is re-visionary, a step toward self-definition. . . Its main strength is the wide range of voices--42 poets from 18 countries. . . they have begun the process of remaking poetry in their own multifaceted images. - Ms. Magazine This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent. The poems address wide-ranging human concerns such as love, motherhood, death, colonial domination, and human dignity. They employ a variety of styles from the conversational to the didactic. Contributors include Ama Ata Aidoo, Noemia de Sousa, Queen Hatshepsut, Micere Githae Mugo, and…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 2/8/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


You Called to Me, Prison Windows



For my Torturer, Lieutenant D . . .



Before your Waking



'The Future is for Tomorrow'



It Took One Hundred Years



The Dead Erect



Obelisk Inscriptions



The Future and the Ancestor



What are We Playing at?



Man-today



Movement



Imagine



Who Remains Standing?



The Naked Face



For Survival



Stepping Aside



We Asked



The Fall



Embrace the Blade



Auditory Hallucinations



The Sun is in Capricorn



Seated on her Bed . . .



Last Night I Saw your Corpse



Of Sweet Rest



I Saw the Red Electric



A Woman Kneeling in the Sorry Jelly



Desire as Light as a Shuttle



Here I am Once More . . .



On the Tattered Edges . . .



The Bird is Mediation



My Woman's Transparence



And We were Born



The Africa of the Statue



On the Fringe



The Vultures Grow Impatient



Sister, You Cannot Think a Baby Out



Gynae One



Issues



For Kinna II



Totems



Liberation



Mawu of the Waters



Shadow of Darkness



Rainy Season Love Song



Going Home



The Spring's Last Drop



The Dissidents



Harvest of War



Other Forms of Slaughter



Water Woman



Nok Lady in Terracotta



The Union



Mistress of My Own Being



Bloody Masculinity



Bitter



We Have Even Lost our Tongues!



Creation



Be Brothers



Bajji



Solange



Lagos



Queue



Yet Still



Nigeria of the Seventies



Tendril Love of Africa



Yoruba Love



Rain at Noon-time



You Who Occupy our Land



Socope



Landscape



Roca



The Same Side of the Canoe



Where are the Men Chased Away by that Mad Wind?



Far from the Beach



Grandma Mariana



Requiem



Labane



Kassacks



The Village



For Miriam



A Freedom Song



Letter to a Friend



A Muffled Cry



from Poem to her Daughter



Look How Rich we are Together



I Want You to Know



Wife of the Husband



Where are those Songs?



Your Name is Gift



I'm My Own Mother, Now



To Be a Woman



The Woman



You



Destruction



You Have Touched my Skin



You Must Help Me Gather



I am Not Just a Body for You



Beyond Poetry



It is Not Just



To my Little Girl



I Have Gone into my Prison Cell



Arise to the Day's Toil



An Agony ... A Resurrection



Nights



Shoeshine Boy



Marketwoman of Luanda



Madalena



Angola



Wind of Liberty



We are Equals



In the Fist of your Hatred



Poem of a Distant Childhood



Call



Our Voice



Let my People Go



Morning



Spell for Jealousy



Spell to Protect our Love



Spell to Cure Barrenness



Spell for Birth



The Mystery



Heartsong



Transformation



The Pain



The Way Out



Creation



Small Passing



Al Wat Kind Is



Our Sharpeville



Mr White Discoverer



I will Still Sing



Burials



Towards Abraham's Bosom



Deliverance



The Child who was Shot Dead by Soldiers at Nyanga



I Don't Want Any More Visitors



I Drift in the Wind



The Face of Love



I am With Those



Pregnant Woman



Dog



A Love Song



Dream Cloud



Death to the Gold Mine!



Tired Lizi Tired



I Have Tried Hard



I Waited for You Last Night



Saviour



Lock the Place in your Heart



Sometimes When It Rains



You are Mad: and I Mean It!



Labour



Mother



The Woman



This Morning



After the Rain



Biographical Notes



Acknowledgements