Author : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780141181004
Offers a selection of African poetry arranged by country
Author : Wayne Visser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 095708174X
This creative collection brings together Africa poems by South African poet and writer, Wayne Visser, including the ever popular "I Am An African", as well as old favourites like "Women of Africa", "I Know A Place in Africa", "Prayer for Africa" and "African Dream". The anthology celebrates the luminous continent and its rainbow people. The updated 5th Edition includes new poems like "Africa Untamed" and "Land of the Sun".
Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1402221118
Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
Author : Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : Samuel W. Allen
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A collection of poetry from Africa.
Author : Gabriel Okara
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2016-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0803288662
Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman's Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964). Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet's earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria's war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara's work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa's most revered poets.
Author : David Cook
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789966460196
The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.
Author : Kojo E. Senanu
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A revised and enlarged edition, this anthology incorporates a wide variety of poetry from the different regions of Africa. More examples of traditional poetry are now included, while cultural developments are reflected in the contemporary material.
Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520273850
"Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.
Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 030776513X
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.
