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Ngong Kum Ngong John |
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Nuptials At Vespers And Other Strains / John Ngong Kum Ngong |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2015 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (90 p.) |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Bootless Tussle; Empty Pitcher; Welcome; Nuptials at Vespers; Feckless Spouse; Prison; Stupid Love; Take Me Back; Cut to the Quick; Celebrating Tenderness; Memorable Journey; You Cannot Understand; Sinister System; No Place to Carve; Minds in the Wilderness; Refusing To See; Wrestling Match; Speaking One Language; Awaken The Giant; Race with my Thoughts; Baffling; Do Something; Our Duty; Beast Of Prey; The Human Beast; Delusions of Grandeur; My Head; Ungroomed Heads; Living Without Your Head; The World Breaks Everyone; More Sinned Against |
Supreme SacrificeUnswerving Friend; The Yoke of Love; Light Your Light; Torn By Guilt; False Bravado; Fall Prostrate Brother; Dark Moments; Blow Invisible Winds; Lost; In Yahweh's Hands; A Star Sank Here; When Gone; Back cover |
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Another exciting and confrontational poetry collection by the award-winning poet, John Ngong Kum Ngong. Nuptials At Vespers And Other Strains is his eighth collection of 44 poems. These poems particularly handle questions of identity, delineating the poet-persona's struggle to detach himself from the bard and be like any ordinary person in society. After a bootless tussle and a depression, he makes friends with the poet .Together they view their situation as a marriage and a prison full of pain, torture and suffering. They desire to end their affliction fighting together. There is a hint of regret, disappointment and even |
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bitterness but the prevailing mood of love and concern spell hope in darkness. |
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