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Author | : Chris Abani |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2013-06-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619320711 |
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Chris Abani finds the sacred in a charged and broken world, to "build meaning from detritus."
Author | : Dike Okoro |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2012-07-31 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9788422888 |
Download We Have Crossed Many Rivers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the poets in this anthology display rootedness in, and preoccupation with, the discourses of identity and political freedom. At the same time, they engage the more contemporary themes of human and economic rights, governance, the natural environment, love, family and generational relations representative of the African continent. Poems from Tanure Ojaide, Yewande Omotoso, Reesom Haile and Frank Chipasula are inlcluded and in all there are contributions from 68 poets.
Author | : Chris Abani |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619322544 |
Download Smoking the Bible Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible. Smoking the Bible is an arresting collection of poems thick with feeling, shaped by Chris Abani’s astounding command of form and metaphor. These poems reveal the personal story of two brothers—one elegizing the other—and the larger story of a man in exile: exile of geography, culture, and memory. What we experience in this emotionally generous collection is a deep spiritual reckoning that draws on ancient African traditions of belief, and an intellectual vivacity drawing on various wisdom literatures and traditions. Abani illustrates the connective geography between harm, regret, and release, as poems move through landscapes of Nigeria, the Midwestern United States, adulthood, and childhood. One has the sense of entering a whole and complex world of the imagination in reading this collection. There is no artifice here, no affectation; and these poems are a study in the very grace of image.
Author | : Chris Abani |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2012-12-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619320703 |
Download Hands Washing Water Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength.”—Pride Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani's fourth poetry collection—a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, “Buffalo Women,” is a Civil War correspondence between lovers that plays on our assumptions about war, gender, morality, and politics. Sweetest Henri, I know we promised to be honest, one to the other, but your recent missive, though welcome as any epistle from you, filled me with a dread that clung like dampness to wet wood. I am terrified for your immortal soul, dear sweet Henri. This mad war of Lincoln is infecting you with a sickness too depraved to even address. . . Abani’s writing is ruthless, at times traumatic, and consistently filled with surprising twists and turns.
Author | : Chris Abani |
Publisher | : Saqi |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0863568785 |
Download Kalakuta Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s. Abani vividly describes the characters that peopled this dark world, from prison inmates such as John James, tortured to death at the age of fourteen, to the general overseers. First published after his release from jail in 1991, Kalakuta Republic remains a paean to those who suffered and to the indomitable human spirit. 'Reading Abani's poems is like being singed by a red hot iron.' Harold Pinter 'Abani's poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts to the heart of human strength, survival and tyranny.' Pride Magazine 'Stunning poems ... Abani conveys the experience in words shaped into art and made unforgettable by their quietness.' New Humanist 'A beautiful work of art ... elevates art and humanity above meanness and inhumanity.' World Literature Today 'A brave and challenging book ... I was moved as much by what the poems have achieved as by what they have rescued from that nightmare world. Reading, I found myself in tears.' Sunday Tribune 'An unheralded chunk of authentic literature' New Statesman 'Abani's ...poems contain moments of grace, humanity and humor.' Susannah Tarbush, Diwaniya 'Chris has emerged with poems that are graceful pieces of art, almost ready to be hung in a gallery for others to come and enter them and rest in them and weep in them and admire them.' Kwame Dawes, professor of English literature, University of Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Author | : Chris Abani |
Publisher | : Akashic Books |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2007-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1933354313 |
Download Song for Night Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
My Luck, a West African boy solider who has not spoken for three years, fights in a senseless war and embarks on a terrifying yet beautiful journey to find his lost platoon.
Author | : Chris Abani |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2016-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1632060434 |
Download The Face Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani gives a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. Beginning with his early childhood immersed in the lgbo culture of West Africa, Abani unfurls a lushly poetic, insightful, and funny narrative that investigates the roles that race, culture, and language play in fashioning our sense of self
Author | : Percival Everett |
Publisher | : Akashic Books |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1933354704 |
Download Abstraktion und Einfühlung Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"If you said "cubism" fifteen times, you would be getting close to some of what Percival Everett is playing with in this new book of poems. With words that mimic process, the poems here attempt to reverse the canvas, skewing perspective to reflect the world around it, spiraling into the work as a way to get out of it. Often what stands in the way of art is art itself, a lingering delusion that there is such a thing as beauty, especially universal beauty. The same is true of a belief in transcendence. To buy into it is to merely substitute one word for another, to fall prey to a correspondence theory of truth."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Chris Abani |
Publisher | : Akashic Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2006-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1936070200 |
Download Becoming Abigail Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand. —A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Moody, lyrical prose reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s Beloved . . . Though the fictional Abigail exists only on the pages of Abani’s novella, her character will seize the imagination of everyone who reads her story.” —Essence Magazine “Becoming Abigail, a spare yet voluptuous tale about a young Nigerian girl’s escape from prostitution is so hypnotic that it begs to be read in one sitting . . . Abigail is sensitive, courageous, and teetering on the brink of madness. Effortlessly gliding between past and present, Chris Abani spins a timeless story of misfortune and triumph.” —Entertainment Weekly Tough, spirited, and fiercely independent Abigail is brought as a teenager to London from Nigeria by relatives who attempt to force her into prostitution. She flees, struggling to find herself in the shadow of a strong but dead mother. In spare yet haunting and lyrical prose reminiscent of Marguerite Duras, Abani brings to life a young woman who lives with a strength and inner light that will enlighten and uplift the reader.
Author | : Gabriela Jauregui |
Publisher | : Akashic Books |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1933354526 |
Download Controlled Decay Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Remarkable. . . . Gabriela Jauregui displays perfect pitch: Her lyrics are impressive in their scope, range, empathy--and especially their authentic passion."--Marjorie Perloff, author of 21st-Century Modernism Gabriela Jauregui was born in Mexico City. Her work has been published in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. She is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow and a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California.