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Author: Ross Gordon Cooper, Dr Publisher: ISBN: 9781471717215 Category : Languages : en Pages : 86
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Dr. Ross G. Cooper, D.Phil. is a Zimbabwean who grew up in the Eastern Boarder Districts in the 1970s and based on his rich exposure to nature, has embarked on a series of books on Zimbabwean life. He is keen on charity work for the impoverished in Zimbabwe and provides his books and t-shirts and/or proceeds to orphanages. His authorship includes children's books, an autobiography and a historical book. Some of his work can be viewed at: http: //stores.lulu.com/Lifeinthebush. Dr. Nevel Vassel, Ph.D. is an African Jamaican performance poet who writes cultural poems, plays and stories. He has participated in festivals and black history month celebrations locally and internationally. He organises annual poetry events and facilitates poetry and story-telling workshops in schools, colleges and universities. He has published two books of poems entitled Poems Calling Out and Poetic Vibes
Author: Ross Gordon Cooper, Dr Publisher: ISBN: 9781471717215 Category : Languages : en Pages : 86
Book Description
Dr. Ross G. Cooper, D.Phil. is a Zimbabwean who grew up in the Eastern Boarder Districts in the 1970s and based on his rich exposure to nature, has embarked on a series of books on Zimbabwean life. He is keen on charity work for the impoverished in Zimbabwe and provides his books and t-shirts and/or proceeds to orphanages. His authorship includes children's books, an autobiography and a historical book. Some of his work can be viewed at: http: //stores.lulu.com/Lifeinthebush. Dr. Nevel Vassel, Ph.D. is an African Jamaican performance poet who writes cultural poems, plays and stories. He has participated in festivals and black history month celebrations locally and internationally. He organises annual poetry events and facilitates poetry and story-telling workshops in schools, colleges and universities. He has published two books of poems entitled Poems Calling Out and Poetic Vibes
Author: Munyaradzi Mawere Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9956728934 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 94
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This is a dense, erudite collection of finely crafted poems that powerfully reflect on vices such as war, bad governance, deforestation, dissipation, greed, oppression and cruelty. The poems also tackle other important phenomena of life such as love, anxiety, weather, time, politics, morality, economics, justice, culture and the environment. The virtue of these finely tuned poems does not only lie in their philosophical questioning, but their artistic merit and audacious reflection of issues pertinent in human life of all ages. While some of the poems provoke amusement and others tears, the corpus of the collection educates through entertainment. The poetry penetrates into the greater depths of the publics psyche to appraise, query, empty and expose their concerns in such a manner that should hopefully make those who cause or ignite human tribulations to rethink their actions and those haunted by the same to stay vigilant.
Author: Claude McKay Publisher: Graphic Arts Books ISBN: 1513224050 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 93
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Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a pioneering collection of verse written in Jamaican Patois, the first of its kind. As a committed leftist, McKay was a keen observer of the Black experience in the Caribbean, the American South, and later in New York, where he gained a reputation during the Harlem Renaissance for celebrating the resilience and cultural achievement of the African American community while lamenting the poverty and violence they faced every day. “Quashie to Buccra,” the opening poem, frames this schism in terms of labor, as one class labors to fulfill the desires of another: “You tas’e petater an’ you say it sweet, / But you no know how hard we wuk fe it; / You want a basketful fe quattiewut, / ‘Cause you no know how ‘tiff de bush fe cut.” Addressing himself to a white audience, he exposes the schism inherent to colonial society between white and black, rich and poor. Advising his white reader to question their privileged consumption, dependent as it is on the subjugation of Jamaica’s black community, McKay warns that “hardship always melt away / Wheneber it comes roun’ to reapin’ day.” This revolutionary sentiment carries throughout Songs of Jamaica, finding an echo in the brilliant poem “Whe’ fe do?” Addressed to his own people, McKay offers hope for a brighter future to come: “We needn’ fold we han’ an’ cry, / Nor vex we heart wid groan and sigh; / De best we can do is fe try / To fight de despair drawin’ night: / Den we might conquer by an’ by— / Dat we might do.” With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Claude McKay’s Songs of Jamaica is a classic of Jamaican literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author: Innocent Blessed Chirawu Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1728398754 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 80
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Evangelistic Poetry & Zimbabwe’s Adult Literacy Campaign: Two major assignments by a former BTC Student 1984-87 as the title states are two pieces of inspirational and literary research work written in the form of both a depth study and a major assignment for the Belvedere Teacher’s College departments of English and Education respectively. Due to the time gap of over three decades between the time when I wrote the original assignments and the time I eventually managed to get the two tasks published, I must admit, as I converted the handwritten assignments into a typed manuscript, I felt obliged to alter some parts of it and this was a bit more pronounced in the Evangelistic poetry probably because right from its onset it was dominantly more of what some readers might others might view as personal views or personal convictions which, I however personally view as dominantly ‘divine inspiration’. Consistent with my original intention, the poems seek to function as a vehicle which a reader can aboard and allow the Spirit of God drive them to their conviction or conversion point to experience the new spiritual birth if they have never reached that point before. Hence, in comparison with orthodox religious poems, these are basically preaching poems aimed at winning the reader’s soul for Christ if they are not ‘born again’. Part 2 of the book mainly discusses Zimbabwe’s post independence National Adult Literacy Campaign; problems and progress. It gives the reader a glimpse of the background and foundation work which eventually upgraded Zimbabwe to a status of into having the highest rate of literacy (reportedly around 92%) in contemporary Africa.
Author: Cheney-Coker, Sly Publisher: Sierra Leonean Writers Series ISBN: 999109122X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 81
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In The Road to Jamaica, which was announced over forty years ago, but suppressed, Cheney- Coker looks at a particular period of African history; the tragic, outward voyages of people and other social variants that have been part of what he calls his Afro-Saxon narrative. Crucially, the volume is divided into two sections: the first being a look at the shock of displacement, but also the remembrance of identifiable modes in the formation of a new cultural perspective. Looking back at remembered landscape, languages and cultural comforts, the poet has attempted to recreate as chapter of history that changed his and other people's idea of identity. The long poems that usher in Part 2 of the volume are, in a sense, reflections on that evolving template about our small world: the happenstances of regeneration, while at the same time an attempt to come to terms with the realities that societies, the world over, are bound to the inevitability of change. Given the smallness of that world, the oneness of our humanity, and the quiet personal awareness of aging, Cheney-Coker has, as usual, focused his lenses on them.
Author: R. Mwanaka Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9956764698 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 147
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Poetry is fragments of music thrown into the air. The primary job and aim of a poet is to create these musical notes, to play these musical notes, and the wind will take these fragment notes, sounds, musics into the ears of listeners. Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2 is one of those winds among many others. As we all are aware of, when the wind travels it has no boundaries, it collects, it deposits, it mixes things up; you never know where that leaf you see the wind carrying will eventually be deposited, is there another wind, another element that is going to move that leaf to another place... We firmly believe it is a good wind. It will be able to push our poetry making in Zimbabwe into other frontiers. Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2 continues from where we left off with the first Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology we created in 2016. In this Volume 2, we have 77 poems from 30 poets and translators, which include among others; experienced poets, academic poets, street poets, emergent poets, beginning poets, all telling stories associated with what all these poets refer to as home, that is, Zimbabwe. It is an ongoing debate on what is Zimbabwe, what we want our Zimbabwe to be socially, culturally, politically, thus we allowed every opinion space in this anthology, whether us editors agree with them or not. We have poets tackling issues to do with poetry, writing in general, art, place, identity, tradition, struggle, culture, gender, collective understanding, religion, individual, human rights and love, among others.
Author: Chenjerai Hove Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 1779220197 Category : Political poetry Languages : en Pages : 71
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A collection of evocative and defiant poetry from one of Zimbabwe's leading literary and political writers. The poems reflect on the plight of the individual citizen and the state of Zimbabwe, the poet's birthplace and spiritual home. They convey empathy for those who suffer anonymous deaths at the expense of tyrannical power, and yearning for a more peaceful world and spirit of common destiny; their intention being in his words' to persuade the heart and the soul and human body to be together and to gently cry out to the world'.
Author: Claude McKay Publisher: Mint Editions--Tales from the ISBN: 9781513137025 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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LARGE PRINT EDITION. Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a pioneering collection of verse written in Jamaican Patois, the first of its kind. As a committed leftist, McKay was a keen observer of the Black experience in the Caribbean, the American South, and later in New York, where he gained a reputation during the Harlem Renaissance for celebrating the resilience and cultural achievement of the African American community while lamenting the poverty and violence they faced every day. "Quashie to Buccra," the opening poem, frames this schism in terms of labor, as one class labors to fulfill the desires of another: "You tas'e petater an' you say it sweet, / But you no know how hard we wuk fe it; / You want a basketful fe quattiewut, / 'Cause you no know how 'tiff de bush fe cut." Addressing himself to a white audience, he exposes the schism inherent to colonial society between white and black, rich and poor. Advising his white reader to question their privileged consumption, dependent as it is on the subjugation of Jamaica's black community, McKay warns that "hardship always melt away / Wheneber it comes roun' to reapin' day." This revolutionary sentiment carries throughout Songs of Jamaica, finding an echo in the brilliant poem "Whe' fe do?" Addressed to his own people, McKay offers hope for a brighter future to come: "We needn' fold we han' an' cry, / Nor vex we heart wid groan and sigh; / De best we can do is fe try / To fight de despair drawin' night: / Den we might conquer by an' by-- / Dat we might do." With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Claude McKay's Songs of Jamaica is a classic of Jamaican literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author: Sean Pryor Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 100949886X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 367
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What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social and cultural lives. It examines the poem in the archive and in the digital sphere, as well as in relation to decolonization and global capitalism. The chapters in this volume range across both canonical and non-canonical poems, poems from the past and the present, and poems by a diverse set of poets. This book will be a key resource for students and scholars studying the poem.
Author: Ross Gordon Cooper, Dr
Author: Ross Gordon Cooper, Dr
Author: Munyaradzi Mawere
Author: Claude McKay
Author: Innocent Blessed Chirawu
Author: Cheney-Coker, Sly
Author: R. Mwanaka
Author: Kristina Rungano
Author: Chenjerai Hove
Author: Claude McKay
Author: Sean Pryor