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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458338903321

Autore

Ndi Bill F

Titolo

Musings on ars poetica [[electronic resource] ] : poetic reflections on the poet and poetry in verse / / Bill F. Ndi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2009

ISBN

1-283-19825-8

9956-716-36-7

9786613198259

9956-716-48-0

9956-615-17-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (106 p.)

Collana

Langaa & African Studies Centre

Disciplina

821.92

Soggetti

Cameroonian poetry (English)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Authors Note; Acknowledgement; The Way To Go; What We Do, What They Do; Consistency; Some of the Best; Talking and Hearing; Eee After Vee; Poets' Pen Prick; Big Bags With Lust Full; Sharp Thorny Pen; Tend to the King's Ear; Put not Asunder; My Clean Hands; Back to Sender; Frail and Strong; Bangolan Question; Not Sweets; Thorny Forebear; Thinking of High (Rivalry); Of the Good Shepherd; No Cheating Lane; Just The Bun King; One & Only Number One; Steel Sensitive; Boy/Speaker; The Journey; Dream On! We'll Be Loyal; Ring Till They Fly

Spiky HirsuteChange II; Blood & Fire; The Grass and the Beasts of this Earth; Our Case; Before You Hang Me; Message Bearer to the Monster; Boxed in a Farm; Dixeption; As I approach my grave; The Poet and the Human World; To Grace Dethrone; The Walls of My Love; The Last Word; Poet's Heart's Desire; The Grip on our Health; Rhythm of the Lands; Song Number 13; Tears for Peace and Love; Dulcet; Travelling on the Spot; Hearing The Voiceless; Transparency; May Be In A Dream; The Seine by Night; Cartridges; The Seer; Heart and tongue; The Transporter; Where we differ; The Scum B...!; Haunting Past



Hands and HeartBeyond Desire; Fool Not Thyself; Tickle Their Minds; What does it matter?; Strong, Strong Weak; Commemoration; The Messenger; I Wonder; The Voice Of A Resting Soul; In Search For It; Biography; Mitigation (Plea by a marooned Pen); The Dirge; Autobiography; Urbane Urchin; Optimists; The Triad; The Great Journey; Thinking Freedom; The Pungent Staple; Help for the President; On the Coming Time; The wealth of Clouds' Voyage (Baby Understanding); Animists 2 Pray!; Let us Dream; The Poets' See, Saw; Word Power: Dilly; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

A literary monument erected by a poet for poets with a vision for poetry as a special annunciation and the poet as a seer, spokesperson, recorder, analyst, adjudicator and advocate with poetic vision and poetic understanding. Bill Ndi, the poet has the rare gift of slipping into the self and psyche of his society to empty the dark depths where the treasures of burden and sadness are hidden. He empties and exposes them to the world to see how even personal repression of feelings by far outweighs those imposed throughout History by tyrants. It is above all, his greatest task of filling these dep