In the Rain Shadow

Name: In the Rain Shadow
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ISBN: 9781584654414

ISBN-10: 1584654414

ISBN-13: 9781584654414

Edition: 2004

Authors: Leland Kinsey

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In his latest collection, Leland Kinsey, the "unofficial poet laureate of the Northeast Kingdom" (Vermont Sunday Magazine), brings the same careful attention and gift for observation to the people and landscape of Tanzania that he regularly has applied to the contours of northern Vermont. In poems that document his encounters with a strange-yet-familiar landscape, Kinsey distills his experience and that of his first cousin, who has lived and worked there for twenty years, into straightforward yet highly polished language that suits the austerity of rural Africa as well as it does that of the Northeast Kingdom. Characteristically clear and powerful, these poems keenly appreciate both the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 8/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



My Cousin in Tanzania


Before the Long Rains


Getting There


Lushoro


In the Rain Shadow of Mount Meru


A Southern Sky


Village Furrow


Junk Toys


The Golden Farmer


African Barrows


Pit Sawyers


The Night Guards


At the Gate


Mother of Vinegar


The Trip Out


Yogurt


Hive Logs


The Desert Owl


Carrying Goats


Orange Benediction


Dying From Lack of Thirst


The Place Where Lions Used to Live


Bitter Cassava


African Ferries


Ancient Ironworks


Swahili Boats


Canyonlands


The Second Wife


White Bats


Omunya


Shoveling Fish


Termites


An Umber Sky


Training Sessions


Baobab Fruit


Arusha Art Alley


Doctor Sokombi