 | Selected Poems
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 | | The Making of Afro-Caribbean Consciousness and Identity in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Dabydean and Fred D'Aguiar
Publication Date: August 16, 2010| ISBN-10: 193314694X | ISBN-13: 978-1933146942In this research monograph Dr. Sarikaya explores the social and cultural underpinnings of racism in Britain as seen through an analysis of the poetry of three prominent Anglo-Caribbean poets: Johnson,David Aberdeen and Fred D'Aguiar. The study focuses on the struggle to achieve identity and voice as well the creative task of using poetry to create awareness and solidarity in dispersed and often marginalized post-industrial urban populations. The social and cultural analysis above leads to a full and robust as...
|  | Emblematic Moon
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| | The Milkman Doesn't Only Deliver Milk (Afram Aserewa Series, 3)
Publication Date: April 1998| ISBN-10: 1779090064 | ISBN-13: 978-1779090065| Edition: Rev. and extended ed Poems. ...
|  | Poetic Commentary: Poetry About Life and Love
Publication Date: June 11, 2010Poetic Commentary is a moving and thrilling anthology of poetry that weaves positive Christian messages with personal life experiences and ideals. Now, more than ever, one needs a positive and caring message about life. This book is based on life experiences, both joyous and tragic. The poem, "Understanding" touts the importance of seeing life through another person's eyes. Have you ever had a life-changing epiphany? "Self love means honoring the spirit and the gift that God gave you; The poem "Love Yourself" expertly captures the sentiment-with graceful and me...
|  | Golden Dreams : A Science For Mystery of Fates (Page I) Peace.
Publication Date: July 1, 2001'Golden Dreams: A Science For Mystery Of Fates' is a mind-boggling, eye-opening, wonderfully unique book.It's strong message is that of the paramount necessity to securemankind's futureon a social relations principle founded on peaceful co-existence. As a universal society-norm. Man's destiny secured by relentlessness at higher ground pursuits which, which, hitherto, has been uplifting and defining humanity.This is not your typical set of one topic, two or three paragraph sentimental passages. No decoder-wearying, words- sentenced-to-maze-ward polemics here.Just...
|  | School Poems
Publication Date: July 3, 2009These poems were written during my first two years of teaching. I wrote them when standing or sitting in front of my students, not knowing what else to do with myself. I wrote them during staff meetings. I wrote them late at night, the terror of the next day building within me. I wrote them as a way to process and report experiences as they were happening to me, like a kind of poetry-journalism or memoir. Simply put, the poems are meant to show something about education. In my two years at Archbishop Carroll I saw some of the depths of the meaning of this idea, ...
|  | From Your Eyes To Mine: Afroethnic Poetry From The Soul
Publication Date: May 24, 2005| ISBN-10: 1418493090 | ISBN-13: 978-1418493097From Your Eyes To Mine is an exceptional book, it is a book of poetry based off of everyday life and African American relations.It is a very good book, and it is great for the whole family to enjoy!It has topics arranging from love, relationships, culture, spirituality, and more.This is a great book to read if you are looking for a mental cleansing solution, it is wonderful if you like to expand your mind to different things and subjects.So if you are looking for an inspiring book, this is the one for you, it is...
| | The Poetry of Shaaban Robert
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| | Celestial Bride and Other Poems (Paukwa Pakawa Series, 1, 1)
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|  | Bitter-Sweet: A Collection of Poems
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|  | Heart Sounds
Publication Date: September 5, 2000| ISBN-10: 9780390820 | ISBN-13: 978-9780390822A collection of poems as meditations on subjects as diverse as tradition, the poetry's artistic relationship with Ted Hughes, Ken Saro Wiwa, the ancestors, strikes, black-white children, the 'real world' versus the world of poetic creation, Lagos and Abuja. In common, the poems have the interests of Africa at heart. They are told with a sardonic wit, and express a basic faith in the power of creative expression. Adebayo Lamikanra is the author of A Round Half-Dozen (Kraft 2002), a collection of short storie...
| | Freedom Like Sunlight
Publication Date: December 27, 2004| ISBN-10: 0606330321 | ISBN-13: 978-0606330329FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents poems and brief biographical notes about such well-known African Americans as: Arthur Ashe, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Louis Armstrong, Martin Luther King, Jr., ""Satchel"" Paige, Rosa Parks, Langston Hughes, Jesse Owens, Marian Anderson, Malcolm X, Wilma Rudolph, and Billie Holiday. --This text refers to the School & Library Binding edition....
| | Hakurarwi/We Shall Not Sleep (Afram Aserewa Series, 4)
Publication Date: April 1998| ISBN-10: 1779090072 | ISBN-13: 978-1779090072Poems. ...
|  | Fugue and Other Poems: Poems on Neville Dawes
Publication Date: November 1, 2008This collection reasserts the significant work of the writer and intellectual Neville Dawes, whose poetry has been unavailable since the late 1950s. A lifelong Marxist and a lover of English literature, Dawes’s concern for the rural Jamaican working class is evident in the poems that celebrate his youth in the village of Sturge Town, Jamaica. Written between 1950 and 1970, these inspiring poems show that the strength provided by heritage can overcome the difficulties posed by the social and political hardships of modern life. An introduction and sever...
|  | Outted
Publication Date: March 1, 2001Outted is a collection of poems confronting love and loss and the search for identity and purpose in the modern world. Written from the heart, these poems are dripping with honesty and truth. Melanie invites the reader into her life and her world to share the joys and the pain. She offers real emotions and speaks to all those with the courage to have loved and lost. ...
| | Rainbows in the Dust (Afram Aserewa Series, 1)
Publication Date: April 1998| ISBN-10: 1779090013 | ISBN-13: 978-1779090010Poems. ...
|  | Singing a Tree into Dance (Carolina Wren Press Poetry Chapbooks,)
Publication Date: February 2004| Series: Carolina Wren Press Poetry Chapbooks, A special edition poetry chapbook in celebration of Jaki Shelton Green's receipt of the 2003 North Carolina Award for Literature. Contains 8 new poems, including "Lifting Veils" dated 9/11/2001, and the long poem entitled "bring me your breasts." ...
| | Desiderata and Other Inspirational Words for All Seasons
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|  | The Palm of Time
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Many of these sixty-seven poems deal with coming to terms with the longperiod of military rule and kleptocracy in Nigeria, and the effects on itscitizens' pysches. A kind of absurd theatre is the poet's metaphor forthese memories, and forms the structure of his work. The poems are groupedinto acts and scenes, and the final 'chorus' act includes poems from otherpoets who have inspired this poet's work, notably Tanure Ojaide. True tothe idea that the audience plays a part in the dramatic experience, Othmanalso includes poems/responses to his work. In the 'Produ...
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