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Wesley Patricia Jabbeh |
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Becoming Ebony [[electronic resource] /] / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley |
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Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003 |
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0-8093-8886-3 |
1-299-05061-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (92 p.) |
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Crab Orchard award series in poetry |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; My Birth at the Doorpost; I Used to Own This Town; Get Out of Here, Boys!; Requiem for Auntie; Today Is Already Too Much; For Marie Antoinette; Two; In the Beginning; This Is What I Tell My Daughter; War Baby; The Moon Poem; They Want to Rise Up; Elegy to West Point Fishermen; Three; Coming Home to Iyeeh; A Dirge for Charles Taylor; Around the Mountains; Elegy for Dessie; Transfiguration; When I Meet Moses; For Robert Frost; The Corrupt Shall Rise Incorruptible; We've Done It All; The World in Long Lines |
All the Soft Things of EarthBecoming Ebony; Four; For My Husband; Wandering Child; Small Desires; When I Rise to Look the Sunshine in Its Bare Eye; A Poem for My Father; In This Town; My Neighbors' Dogs; A Letter to My Brother Coming to America; My New Insurance Plan; These Are the Reasons the Living Live; M-T, Turning Thirteen; Winter Street; A Snowwoman in Her Dying Hour; I Now Wander; I Am Acquainted with Waiting; Glossary; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry; Back Cover |
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Recapturing the celebratory voice of Africa in poems that are both contemporary and traditional, Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley weaves lyrical storytelling with oral history and images of Africa and America, revealing powerful insights about the relationship between strength and tragedy-and finding reason to celebrate even in the presence of war, difficulties, and death. Rooted in myths that can be |
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