New African Poetry An Anthology

Name: New African Poetry An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780894108914

ISBN-10: 0894108913

ISBN-13: 9780894108914

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Authors: Tanure Ojaide, Tijan M. Sallah

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List price: $25.00
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Publication date: 5/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 234
Size: 8.46" wide x 10.98" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Incantations of the Sea: Moando Coast



Newscast



Obbligato from Public Gallery



Old Wharf Canto



Dialogue



Symphony from the Balcony



Of Promises and Prophecy



Four Ways of Dying



Manifesto on Ars Poetica



A Love Poem for My Country



The Singing Drum



Everything to Declare



Double Song



These Too Are Our Elders



Visiting Zomba Plateau



Making Our Clowns Martyrs



The Cheerful Girls at Smiller's Bar, 1971



On Being Asked to Write a Poem for 1979



I Was Sent For



Walking the Plateau



Pain



Reborn



Summer Fires of Mulanje Mountain



An Artist and a Wailing Mother



Corruption



An Agony ... A Resurrection



Nightmare I



Nightmare III



The Scaffold



Tomorrow



The City a Wrecked Ship



Abortion



Confessions



I Usually Look Around Me



Abode of Arrival



State of Butterfly



Arabesque



December 31



Wall of Dreams (2)



Belonging to a New Family



Here I Am Once More ...



Ode of Signs



Female



Quatrains for Joy



The Pen



On the Tattered Edges ...



My Woman's Transparence



The Africa of the Statue



The Vultures Grow Impatient



Homecoming



Guerilla Fighter



Poem of Return



From the Outside



Promise!



There's an Unknown River in Soweto



I Saw as a Child



I Have Tried Hard



I Waited for You Last Night



Sometimes When It Rains



Observations



The Women Sing ...



The Know



Welcome to the New Consciousness



Wet Pain ... Tread with Care



Ofay-Watcher Looks Back



City Johannesburg



Alexandria



This Old Woman



The Curfew Breakers



The Change



Red Hills of Home



You Will Forget



Desert Crossing



The Old Man Inside Me



When Love's Perished



The Cemetery in the Mind



Neither Innocence Nor Experience



This Morning



Arrivants



Kisimiso



Let It Be



Mr. Bezuidenhout's Dogs



By Forty-Sixth



Leaking Roof



Another Moment



Return to the Homeland



Along the Banks of the Charles



The Martyred Tamarind



The Island and Europe



The Emigrant's Son



Three Poems



The Elders Are Gods



No Argument Tonight



Mr. Agama



Television as God



I Want to Go to Keta



They're Tearing Up the Old Graveyard



They Hunt the Night



Elegy for the Revolution



Tsitsa



Murmuring



Our Birth-Cord



Exiles



Illicit Passion



Mawu of the Waters



Messages



A Note to My Liberal Feminist Sister (1)



Steps



I Am the Freshly Dead Husband



King Tut in America



Home News



A Stone at the Tip of the Tongue



Cloud Rains



The Way



The Spring's Last Drop



Harvest of War



May Ours Not Be



When the Monuments ...



The Dialogue



Bitter



Oya Now



4th Witness - The Petty Thieves



I Wan Bi President



Do Not Stop Me!



Poem



Asphalt



Prologue ...



The New Brooms



Song



Where Everybody Is King



The Fate of Vultures



A Verdict of Stone



The Daydream of Ants



Where the Nightmare Begins



Release



Paris Latin Quarter



She Thinks in Song



Longing



I Sing of Change



Who Says That Drought Was Here



XXII



XIV



The Word Is an Egg



Dyeing



Letter to a Roving Poet



Cloak of Dawn



Analysis



Peasants



Poet Among Those Who Are Also Poets



Childhood



Dead Eyes



Beloved



Lungi Crossing



When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes



Notes



Index of Authors



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