The promise of hope : new and selected poems, 1964-2013 / / Kofi Awoonor ; edited and with an introduction by Kofi Anyidoho ; foreword by Kwame Dawes |
Autore | Awoonor Kofi <1935-2013.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (663 p.) |
Disciplina |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
AnyidohoKofi
DawesKwame Senu Neville <1962-> |
Collana |
African Poetry Book Series The Promise of Hope
African poetry book series |
Soggetto topico | African poetry (English) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8032-5494-6
0-8032-5493-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; In Retrospect: An Introduction; From ""Herding the Lost Lambs""; The Light Is On; The New Boy on the Block; Across a New Dawn; Songs of Abuse; To Feed Our People; To the Ancient Poets; Counting the Years; Once More; On the Gallows Once; Truth; What Brought Me Here?; What More Can I Give?; Those Gone Ahead; Up in the Garden; Xiansi, Pou Tou Dalla; I'll Raise a New Song; Remembrance; From ""Latin American Caribbean Notebook""; In Memoriam; Of Home and Sea I Already Sang; Of Home Once More
Rio De Janeiro: Fearful and Lovely CityDistant Home Country; Agra: January 21, 1989; Cuban Chapters; The Hero's Blood; Of Faith and Fortitude; The Orient Express; Betrayers; Havana, Cuba: The Free Territory of the Americas; A Caress; For Tenu and Afetsi: A Hymn; Of Niggerhood; A Death Foretold; The Prophecy from Iran; In Memoriam: Return to Kingston; Lover's Song; The Red Bright Book of History; At a Time Like This; Back with Sandino; Prayer; The Ancient Twine; Seatime, Another; Readings and Musings; Light Hours in Verse; Time Revisited; A Thin Echo of Time's Voice "As Long as There Are Tears and Suffering, So Long Our Work Will Not Be Over," Jawaharlal NehruThe Girl that Died in Havana; Our Pride Alone; Dream-Again; New Rain; Birds on an Autumn Wire; Shamla Hills: Bhopal; Shamla Hills: Sanchi Temples; Childhood; Parting; From ""Until the Morning After""; Life's Tears; So the World Changes; Life's Winds; Grains and Tears; Had Death Not Had Me in Tears; Act of Faith; I Rejoice; The Picture; For Ezeki; From ""The House by the Sea""; Part One: Before the Journey; Poems, Fall '73; The Land Endures; Going Somehow; After the Exile and the Feasts Some Talk of Lunar VirginsPoem; Poetry; Departure and Prospect; When Going into Jail; Africa; Poem; Of Absence; Poem; Poem; Sequences; For Henoga Vinoko Akpalu; An American Poem; Another Lover's Song; Self-Portrait; Part Two: Homecoming . . . Poems from Prison; Homecoming; The Second Circle: Beginning Midnight 5/1/76: (5th January 1976); On Being Told of Torture; The First Circle; Dream of Home; Revolution; To Sika on Her 11th Birthday; Revolution: A Chat with Ho Chi Minh's Ghost; Found Poem; Another Found Poem; The Place; Poem; Us; Love; Personal Note; Sea Time, Meaning a Pledge The Will to DieA Little Word; The Wayfarer Comes Home; From ""Ride Me, Memory""; America; Harlem on a Winter Night; Long Island Sketches; To My Uncle Jonathan: A Song of Abuse; To Felicity, a Girl I Met in LA; Hymns of Praise, Celebration, and Prayer; Afro-American Beats; Etchings from My Mind; My Father's Prayer; My Uncle the Diviner-Chieftain; To Sika; To Those Gone Ahead; From ""Night of My Blood""; I Heard a Bird Cry; Night of My Blood; Stop the Death-Cry; A Dirge; More Messages; At the Gates; The Dance; Do Not Handle It; All Men My Brothers; Lament of the Silent Sisters Hymn to My Dumb Earth |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463941403321 |
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The promise of hope : new and selected poems, 1964-2013 / / Kofi Awoonor ; edited and with an introduction by Kofi Anyidoho ; foreword by Kwame Dawes |
Autore | Awoonor Kofi <1935-2013.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (663 p.) |
Disciplina |
821
821.91 821/.91 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AnyidohoKofi
DawesKwame Senu Neville <1962-> |
Collana |
African Poetry Book Series The Promise of Hope
African poetry book series |
Soggetto topico | African poetry (English) |
ISBN |
0-8032-5494-6
0-8032-5493-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; In Retrospect: An Introduction; From ""Herding the Lost Lambs""; The Light Is On; The New Boy on the Block; Across a New Dawn; Songs of Abuse; To Feed Our People; To the Ancient Poets; Counting the Years; Once More; On the Gallows Once; Truth; What Brought Me Here?; What More Can I Give?; Those Gone Ahead; Up in the Garden; Xiansi, Pou Tou Dalla; I'll Raise a New Song; Remembrance; From ""Latin American Caribbean Notebook""; In Memoriam; Of Home and Sea I Already Sang; Of Home Once More
Rio De Janeiro: Fearful and Lovely CityDistant Home Country; Agra: January 21, 1989; Cuban Chapters; The Hero's Blood; Of Faith and Fortitude; The Orient Express; Betrayers; Havana, Cuba: The Free Territory of the Americas; A Caress; For Tenu and Afetsi: A Hymn; Of Niggerhood; A Death Foretold; The Prophecy from Iran; In Memoriam: Return to Kingston; Lover's Song; The Red Bright Book of History; At a Time Like This; Back with Sandino; Prayer; The Ancient Twine; Seatime, Another; Readings and Musings; Light Hours in Verse; Time Revisited; A Thin Echo of Time's Voice "As Long as There Are Tears and Suffering, So Long Our Work Will Not Be Over," Jawaharlal NehruThe Girl that Died in Havana; Our Pride Alone; Dream-Again; New Rain; Birds on an Autumn Wire; Shamla Hills: Bhopal; Shamla Hills: Sanchi Temples; Childhood; Parting; From ""Until the Morning After""; Life's Tears; So the World Changes; Life's Winds; Grains and Tears; Had Death Not Had Me in Tears; Act of Faith; I Rejoice; The Picture; For Ezeki; From ""The House by the Sea""; Part One: Before the Journey; Poems, Fall '73; The Land Endures; Going Somehow; After the Exile and the Feasts Some Talk of Lunar VirginsPoem; Poetry; Departure and Prospect; When Going into Jail; Africa; Poem; Of Absence; Poem; Poem; Sequences; For Henoga Vinoko Akpalu; An American Poem; Another Lover's Song; Self-Portrait; Part Two: Homecoming . . . Poems from Prison; Homecoming; The Second Circle: Beginning Midnight 5/1/76: (5th January 1976); On Being Told of Torture; The First Circle; Dream of Home; Revolution; To Sika on Her 11th Birthday; Revolution: A Chat with Ho Chi Minh's Ghost; Found Poem; Another Found Poem; The Place; Poem; Us; Love; Personal Note; Sea Time, Meaning a Pledge The Will to DieA Little Word; The Wayfarer Comes Home; From ""Ride Me, Memory""; America; Harlem on a Winter Night; Long Island Sketches; To My Uncle Jonathan: A Song of Abuse; To Felicity, a Girl I Met in LA; Hymns of Praise, Celebration, and Prayer; Afro-American Beats; Etchings from My Mind; My Father's Prayer; My Uncle the Diviner-Chieftain; To Sika; To Those Gone Ahead; From ""Night of My Blood""; I Heard a Bird Cry; Night of My Blood; Stop the Death-Cry; A Dirge; More Messages; At the Gates; The Dance; Do Not Handle It; All Men My Brothers; Lament of the Silent Sisters Hymn to My Dumb Earth |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787877803321 |
Awoonor Kofi <1935-2013.>
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Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The promise of hope : new and selected poems, 1964-2013 / / Kofi Awoonor ; edited and with an introduction by Kofi Anyidoho ; foreword by Kwame Dawes |
Autore | Awoonor Kofi <1935-2013.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (663 p.) |
Disciplina |
821
821.91 821/.91 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AnyidohoKofi
DawesKwame Senu Neville <1962-> |
Collana |
African Poetry Book Series The Promise of Hope
African poetry book series |
Soggetto topico | African poetry (English) |
ISBN |
0-8032-5494-6
0-8032-5493-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; In Retrospect: An Introduction; From ""Herding the Lost Lambs""; The Light Is On; The New Boy on the Block; Across a New Dawn; Songs of Abuse; To Feed Our People; To the Ancient Poets; Counting the Years; Once More; On the Gallows Once; Truth; What Brought Me Here?; What More Can I Give?; Those Gone Ahead; Up in the Garden; Xiansi, Pou Tou Dalla; I'll Raise a New Song; Remembrance; From ""Latin American Caribbean Notebook""; In Memoriam; Of Home and Sea I Already Sang; Of Home Once More
Rio De Janeiro: Fearful and Lovely CityDistant Home Country; Agra: January 21, 1989; Cuban Chapters; The Hero's Blood; Of Faith and Fortitude; The Orient Express; Betrayers; Havana, Cuba: The Free Territory of the Americas; A Caress; For Tenu and Afetsi: A Hymn; Of Niggerhood; A Death Foretold; The Prophecy from Iran; In Memoriam: Return to Kingston; Lover's Song; The Red Bright Book of History; At a Time Like This; Back with Sandino; Prayer; The Ancient Twine; Seatime, Another; Readings and Musings; Light Hours in Verse; Time Revisited; A Thin Echo of Time's Voice "As Long as There Are Tears and Suffering, So Long Our Work Will Not Be Over," Jawaharlal NehruThe Girl that Died in Havana; Our Pride Alone; Dream-Again; New Rain; Birds on an Autumn Wire; Shamla Hills: Bhopal; Shamla Hills: Sanchi Temples; Childhood; Parting; From ""Until the Morning After""; Life's Tears; So the World Changes; Life's Winds; Grains and Tears; Had Death Not Had Me in Tears; Act of Faith; I Rejoice; The Picture; For Ezeki; From ""The House by the Sea""; Part One: Before the Journey; Poems, Fall '73; The Land Endures; Going Somehow; After the Exile and the Feasts Some Talk of Lunar VirginsPoem; Poetry; Departure and Prospect; When Going into Jail; Africa; Poem; Of Absence; Poem; Poem; Sequences; For Henoga Vinoko Akpalu; An American Poem; Another Lover's Song; Self-Portrait; Part Two: Homecoming . . . Poems from Prison; Homecoming; The Second Circle: Beginning Midnight 5/1/76: (5th January 1976); On Being Told of Torture; The First Circle; Dream of Home; Revolution; To Sika on Her 11th Birthday; Revolution: A Chat with Ho Chi Minh's Ghost; Found Poem; Another Found Poem; The Place; Poem; Us; Love; Personal Note; Sea Time, Meaning a Pledge The Will to DieA Little Word; The Wayfarer Comes Home; From ""Ride Me, Memory""; America; Harlem on a Winter Night; Long Island Sketches; To My Uncle Jonathan: A Song of Abuse; To Felicity, a Girl I Met in LA; Hymns of Praise, Celebration, and Prayer; Afro-American Beats; Etchings from My Mind; My Father's Prayer; My Uncle the Diviner-Chieftain; To Sika; To Those Gone Ahead; From ""Night of My Blood""; I Heard a Bird Cry; Night of My Blood; Stop the Death-Cry; A Dirge; More Messages; At the Gates; The Dance; Do Not Handle It; All Men My Brothers; Lament of the Silent Sisters Hymn to My Dumb Earth |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825070303321 |
Awoonor Kofi <1935-2013.>
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Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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