03295nam 2200577 a 450 991077946810332120230617014931.00-8093-8886-31-299-05061-1(CKB)2550000000996680(EBL)1354399(OCoLC)856870333(SSID)ssj0000821605(PQKBManifestationID)11509738(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821605(PQKBWorkID)10878746(PQKB)11218167(MiAaPQ)EBC1354399(OCoLC)828869974(MdBmJHUP)muse25882(Au-PeEL)EBL1354399(CaPaEBR)ebr10654971(CaONFJC)MIL436311(EXLCZ)99255000000099668020020712d2003 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrBecoming Ebony[electronic resource] /Patricia Jabbeh WesleyCarbondale Crab Orchard Review Southern Illinois University Pressc20031 online resource (92 p.)Crab Orchard award series in poetryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8093-2517-9 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 LinesAll 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 CoverRecapturing 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 traced to the Grebo tradition, Becoming Ebony portrays Liberian-born Wesley's experiences of village talk and civil war as well as her experiences of the pain of her motherCrab Orchard Series in PoetryLiberian AmericansPoetryLiberian Americans811/.54Wesley Patricia Jabbeh1472558MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779468103321Becoming Ebony3685397UNINA