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200 10$aBecoming Ebony$b[electronic resource] /$fPatricia Jabbeh Wesley
210   $aCarbondale $cCrab Orchard Review $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (92 p.)
225  0$aCrab Orchard award series in poetry
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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327   $aCover; 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
327   $aAll 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
330   $aRecapturing 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 mother
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