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Author : Chris Abani
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320711
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Sanctificum written by Chris Abani and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Abani finds the sacred in a charged and broken world, to "build meaning from detritus."
Author : Dike Okoro
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9788422888
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)
Download or read book We Have Crossed Many Rivers written by Dike Okoro and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1619322544
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Smoking the Bible written by Chris Abani and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1619320703
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Hands Washing Water written by Chris Abani and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354313
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Song for Night written by Chris Abani and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863568785
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Kalakuta Republic written by Chris Abani and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632060434
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Face written by Chris Abani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Chris Abani
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070200
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Becoming Abigail written by Chris Abani and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Percival Everett
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354704
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Abstraktion und Einfühlung written by Percival Everett and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Peepal Tree PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9781845231569
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Feed Me the Sun written by Chris Abani and published by Peepal Tree PressLtd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of imaginative and witty poems, this work displays astonishing energy; beauty of expression; and a range of reference to contemporary life, history, art, and literature. Including both meditative and narrative poems, this volume frequently focuses on extreme situations where compassion, love, and individual determination triumph against all odds. "Daphne’s Lot” explores the life of an Englishwoman, the poet’s mother, as she is caught up in the madness of the Nigerian civil war, while "Buffalo Women”--an epistolary sequence of poems--follows two lovers mired by the American Civil War. Through irony and empathy, this collection presents characters who are at odds with their societies.
Author : Elizabeth Austen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911287646
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Every Dress a Decision written by Elizabeth Austen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabriela Jauregui
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354526
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Controlled Decay written by Gabriela Jauregui and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Chris Abani
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698140184
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of Las Vegas written by Chris Abani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, he’s sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help of Dr. Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who specializes in the study of psychopaths. As Sunil tries to crack the twins, the implications of his research grow darker. Haunted by his betrayal of loved ones back home during apartheid, he seeks solace in the love of Asia, a prostitute with hopes of escaping that life. But Sunil’s own troubled past is fast on his heels in the form of a would-be assassin. Suspenseful through the last page, The Secret History of Las Vegas is Chris Abani’s most accomplished work to date, with his trademark visionary prose and a striking compassion for the inner lives of outsiders.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Everyman Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781841593722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Giovanni's Room written by James Baldwin and published by Everyman Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibin"--
Author : Rick Reid
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354763
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)
Download or read book To be Hung from the Ceiling by Strings of Varying Length written by Rick Reid and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young poet Rick Reid enters the pantheon of Chris Abani's Black Goat poetry series.
Author : Chris Abani
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143038771
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Virgin of Flames written by Chris Abani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of Angels Praised as “singular” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), GraceLand stunned critics and instantly established Chris Abani as an exciting new voice in fiction. In his second novel, set against the uncompromising landscape of East L.A., Abani follows a struggling artist named Black, whose life and friendships reveal a world far removed from the mainstream. Through Black’s journey of self- discovery, Abani raises essential questions about poverty, religion, and ethnicity in America today. The Virgin of Flames, a marvelous and gritty novel filled with indelible images and unforgettable characters, confirms Chris Abani as an immensely talented writer.
Author : Geffrey Davis
Publisher : American Poets Continuum
ISBN 13 : 9781942683797
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Night Angler written by Geffrey Davis and published by American Poets Continuum. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Laughlin Award. Winner 2018, Academy of American Poets"--Cover.
