The new African poetry
The new African poetry: an anthology
edited by Tanure Ojaide, Tijan M. Sallah
Publisher: Boulder ; Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
ISBN: 0894108794
DDC: 896
LCC: PL8013
Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:
"A three continents book."
Includes index.
Incantations of the Sea: Moando Coast / Mukula Kadima-Nzuji --
Newscast -- Obbligato from Public Gallery -- Old Wharf Canto --
Dialogue -- Symphony from the Balcony / Jared Angira -- Of Promises
and Prophecy -- Four Ways of Dying / Steve Chimombo -- Manifesto on
Ars Poetica -- A Love Poem for My Country -- The Singing Drum --
Everything to Declare -- Double Song / Frank Chipasula -- These Too
Are Our Elders -- Visiting Zomba Plateau -- Making Our Clowns Martyrs
-- The Cheerful Girls at Smiller's Bar, 1971 -- On Being Asked to
Write a Poem for 1979 / Jack Mapanje -- I Was Sent For -- Walking the
Plateau -- Pain / Lupenga Mphande -- Reborn -- Summer Fires of
Mulanje Mountain / Edison Mpina -- An Artist and a Wailing Mother --
Corruption / Freddy Macha -- An Agony ... A Resurrection / Assumpta
Acam-Oturu -- Nightmare I -- Nightmare III / Abdul Maqsoud Abdul
Karim -- The Scaffold -- Tomorrow -- The City a Wrecked Ship / Amal
Dunqul -- Abortion -- Confessions -- I Usually Look Around Me / Iman
Mirsal -- Abode of Arrival -- State of Butterfly -- Arabesque --
December 31 -- Wall of Dreams (2) / Ahmed Taha -- Belonging to a New
Family / Mohammad Bennis -- Here I Am Once More ... / Rachida Madani
-- Ode of Signs / Muhammad Abd al-Hayy -- Female -- Quatrains for Joy
-- The Pen / Muhammad al-Ghuzzi -- On the Tattered Edges ... -- My
Woman's Transparence -- The Africa of the Statue -- The Vultures Grow
Impatient / Amina Said -- Homecoming / Joao Pedro -- Guerilla Fighter
-- Poem of Return / Jofre Rocha -- From the Outside -- Promise! /
Mafika Pascal Gwala -- There's an Unknown River in Soweto -- I Saw as
a Child -- I Have Tried Hard -- I Waited for You Last Night / Zindzi
Mandela -- Sometimes When It Rains / Geina Mhlophe -- Observations --
The Women Sing ... / Luvuyo Mkangelwa -- The Know / Christine (Douts)
Qunta -- Welcome to the New Consciousness -- Wet Pain ... Tread with
Care / Leseko Rampolekeng -- Ofay-Watcher Looks Back -- City
Johannesburg -- Alexandria -- This Old Woman / Mongane Wally Serote
-- The Curfew Breakers -- The Change / Samuel Chimsoro -- Red Hills
of Home -- You Will Forget / Chenjerai Hove -- Desert Crossing -- The
Old Man Inside Me -- When Love's Perished -- The Cemetery in the Mind
-- Neither Innocence Nor Experience / Dambudzo Marechera -- This
Morning / Kristina Rungano -- Arrivants -- Kisimiso -- Let It Be --
Mr. Bezuidenhout's Dogs / Musaemura Zimunya -- By Forty-Sixth /
Fernando D'Almeida -- Leaking Roof / Gahlia Gwangwa'a -- Another
Moment / Sim Kombem -- Return to the Homeland -- Along the Banks of
the Charles / Adelina da Silva -- The Martyred Tamarind / Alberto
Ferreira Gomes -- The Island and Europe -- The Emigrant's Son / Luis
Andrade Silva -- Three Poems / Veronique Tadjo -- The Elders Are Gods
-- No Argument Tonight -- Mr. Agama -- Television as God / Tijan M.
Sallah -- I Want to Go to Keta -- They're Tearing Up the Old
Graveyard / Kobena Eyi Acquah -- They Hunt the Night -- Elegy for the
Revolution -- Tsitsa -- Murmuring -- Our Birth-Cord / Kofi Anyidoho
-- Exiles -- Illicit Passion -- Mawu of the Waters / Abena Busia --
Messages -- A Note to My Liberal Feminist Sister (1) / Naana Banyiwa
Horne -- Steps -- I Am the Freshly Dead Husband / Kojo Laing -- King
Tut in America / Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang -- Home News / Ahmed
Tidjani-Cisse -- A Stone at the Tip of the Tongue -- Cloud Rains /
Oumarou Watta -- The Way -- The Spring's Last Drop -- Harvest of War
/ Catherine Acholonu -- May Ours Not Be -- When the Monuments ... --
The Dialogue / Funso Aiyejina -- Bitter -- Oya Now -- 4th Witness -
The Petty Thieves / Ifi Amadiume -- I Wan Bi President /
Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- Do Not Stop Me! / Angela Miri -- Poem / Chimalum
Nwankwo -- Asphalt / Chimalum Nwankwo -- Prologue ... -- The New
Brooms -- Song / Odia Ofeimun -- Where Everybody Is King -- The Fate
of Vultures -- A Verdict of Stone -- The Daydream of Ants -- Where
the Nightmare Begins / Tanure Ojaide -- Release -- Paris Latin
Quarter -- She Thinks in Song -- Longing / Femi Osofisan -- I Sing of
Change -- Who Says That Drought Was Here -- XXII -- XIV -- The Word
Is an Egg / Niyi Osundare -- Dyeing / Mabel Tobrise -- Letter to a
Roving Poet -- Cloak of Dawn / Amadou Lamine Sall -- Analysis --
Peasants -- Poet Among Those Who Are Also Poets -- Childhood -- Dead
Eyes / Syl Cheney-Coker -- Beloved -- Lungi Crossing -- When You Have
Emptied Our Calabashes.
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