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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496225805
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Languages : en
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Author: Hana Volavková
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Category : Child artists
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terezín Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.

Author: Mahmoudan Hawad
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496230183
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s. This evanescent being, situated on the edge of the abyss and deprived of speech, space, and the right to exist, has reached such a stage of suffering, misery, and oppression that it acquiesces to the erasure implicit in the labels attached to it. Through an avalanche of words, sounds, and gestures, Hawad attempts to free this creature from the net that ensnares it, to patch together a silhouette that is capable of standing up again, to transform pain into a breeding ground for resistance—a resistance requiring a return to the self, the imagination, and ways of thinking about the world differently. The road will be long. Hawad uses poetry, “cartridges of old words, / a thousand and one misfires, botched, reloaded,” as a weapon of resistance.

Author: Len Verwey
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496234685
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life's different stages and what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives.

Author: Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496235924
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers exploring contemporary literary traditions with African and African diaspora poetry that transcends borders. In this collection, Liberia’s founding settlers wrestle with their identity as African free slaves in the homeland from which their ancestors were captured, and writers of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries find themselves navigating a landscape at odds with itself. From poets of Liberia’s past to young writers of the present, the contributors to this volume celebrate the beauty of their nation while mourning the devastation of a long, bloody civil war.

Author: Cheswayo Mphanza
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622583X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with the film 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being. Cheswayo Mphanza’s collection questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe on monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it. The poems continue the conversations of the infinite possibilities of the imagination to dabble in, with, and out of history.

Author: Romeo Oriogun
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496238427
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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Like I knew, standing on the seashore, the hunger wracking a migrant’s body is movement. —from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea” The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.

Author: Tares Oburumu
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496237021
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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"Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu's collection mixes music, religion, and political critique, evoking pasts and futures"--

Author: Jessica Poli
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496227948
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Languages : en
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Author: Uhuru Portia Phalafala
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496235150
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala's family's experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, Phalafala follows the death of her grandfather during a historic juncture in 2018, when a silicosis class action lawsuit against the mining industry in South Africa was settled in favor of the miners. Phalafala ties the catastrophic effects of gold mining on the miners and the environment in Johannesburg to the destruction of Black lives, the institution of the Black family, and Black sociality. Her epic poem addresses racial capitalism, bringing together histories of the transatlantic and trans-Indian slave trades, of plantation economies, and of mining and prison-industrial complexes. As inheritor of the migrant labor lineage, she uses her experience to explore how Black women carry intergenerational trauma of racial capitalism in their bodies and intersects the personal and national, continental and diasporic narration of this history within a critical race framework.