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Autore |
Nwankwo Chimalum Moses <1949-> |
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Of the deepest shadows & the prisons of fire / / Chimalum Nwankwo |
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New York : , : African Heritage Press, , 2010 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Nigerian poetry |
Nigerian fiction |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Poets Preface""; ""Prayers""; ""Spirit of all Grammar""; ""Heart of the Moon and Sun""; ""Fire and the Deep Shadows""; ""Prisons of Fire""; ""Of the Deepest Shadows""; ""Earth Call""; ""Calling the Night""; ""Fire""; ""The War""; ""Mongers Anthem""; ""Memory Poem""; ""Comrade""; ""The Dog Barks for You""; ""Scared Spaces""; ""Ibo Landing""; ""Special Hearts""; ""Walking into the Sea""; ""When the Soul Train Parks""; ""Memorial Poem""; ""Silent Steps""; ""The Heart of 46664"" |
""Ancestral Whispers and a Farm of Flowers""""Warrior Hearts""; ""The Covenant""; ""Invocation""; ""Desert Wind""; ""No Sunset for Heroes""; ""Simple Steps""; ""Burning Bush""; ""The Crucifixion""; ""Master of Fires""; ""Looking Back in Anger, Dear Patrice""; ""What the Sea Washes Back""; ""Squints from the Prison in the Heart""; ""From a Competing God: The Sharks are not There""; ""Of Tales and Broken Columns""; ""King David Hotel""; ""Hearts in the Wilderness""; ""Song of the Unknown Soldier""; ""Women of Iraq""; ""American Woman""; ""Twisted Hearts""; ""Masks""; ""Mary Mary"" |
""Dog of Faeces""""Lady of Plastic, Lady of Iron""; ""To Kill a Queen""; ""Woman at the Gate""; ""The Coven""; ""Neutral One""; ""The Worlds We Make""; ""In the Wind's Breath""; ""Of Love Benighted""; ""A Wedding Memory""; ""Slouching to Beat a Wife""; ""Agamevu""; ""Questions""; ""Why Should I?""; ""Questions""; ""Quick Tongue of Today""; ""Rumors of Death""; ""Malindidzimu""; ""Milindidzimu""; ""Longing for Home""; |
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""The Elders are Dead""; ""The House of the Chief""; ""Many Mansions""; ""The Great River Calls Me""; ""Orbit of Light""; ""Bird of Distances""; ""Back Cover"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire is a literary canvas of leaders who have affected humanity in very serious and unquestionable ways. The core of this artistic engagement is the destiny of the black world. There are tangential departures into territories with crises the world cannot afford to ignore. The poet visits each leader, living or dead, with equal passion. His curious brush is delicate, ecstatic, melancholic or even celebratory depending on what image or circumstance he pans into view. This corpus comes with the characteristic anguish and tenderness of a very sensitive and |
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