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“karen press”

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  • Canary's Songbook

    by Karen Press ...
    The power of history to shape people and politics is explored in this collection of finely wrought poems. The desire to find ancestors who can be invoked as sources of wisdom, or remembered as examples of imprudence, is a central preoccupation of these poems that are given additional potency because of South Africa's painful dialogue with its own past. While the poems dwell on South Africa's need ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slowly, As If

    by Karen Press ...
    Written by leading South African poet and feminist thinker Karen Press, these poems are varied in tone and formal invention. Examining themes as diverse as imperialism, historical memory, urban planning, love, poets, and folk dancing, this compilation adjusts its personal, political, and ecological focus on a new South Africa in which a change of spirit is more difficult and more urgently needed ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Copper Woman

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    by Afua Cooper ...
    Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, identities in flux, migration, politics and flights of fancy. The contents move back and forth between the past and the present, and project into the future, envisioning a new world/a new creation. The ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems

    by Chinua Achebe ...
    A collection of poetry spanning the full range of the African-born author's acclaimed career has been updated to include seven never-before-published works, as well as much of his early poetry that explores such themes as the African consciousness, the tragedy of Biafra, and the mysteries of human relationships. ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

    by Gerald Moore ...
    'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war ... Read more

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  • The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony

    by Ladan Osman ...
    Series series African Poetry Book
    Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum ... Read more

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  • Butterflies in the Breeze

    by James Forson ...
    A collection of poetry about the everyday with fresh insights on common place events and things. It is the sort of book you keep at your bedside and dip into from time to time.We sat in our garden. A butterfly came over the wall. We became enthralled as it flitted from bush to flower. We were captivated by its delicacy, its fragile beauty.We were lost in its delicate form. Then, in a puff of wind, ... Read more

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  • We Cry For Peace

    by Sunday Abegunde ...
    Peace is beyond a want the world longs for. It is a serious need all sane being crave for. With tears of the pen we hound In search for cure to our land's ailing peace Peace is beyond an abstract assertion or an imaginary utopia people talk about. Peace is real. Peace can really be seen and felt in our society and in our personal lives.This book is an assemblage of the voices of dexterous poets ... Read more

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  • Fuchsia

    by Mahtem Shiferraw ...
    Series series African Poetry Book
    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 ... Read more

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  • We Have Crossed Many Rivers

    New Poetry from Africa

    by Dike Okoro ...
    We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the poets in this anthology display rootedness in, and preoccupation with, the discourses of identity ... Read more

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  • Mandela the Spear and Other Poems

    by Atukwei Okai ...
    The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okaiís burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering ... Read more

    $98.89 USD