Power and the Praise Poem
Author: Leroy Vail
Publisher: James Currey
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780852550885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the political role of the poet in the oral societies of southern Africa.
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Praise the Unburied
Author: Clara Burghelea
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781838402556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is Clara Burghelea's second full collection of poetry. Clare is a Romanian-born poet with an MFA in Poetry from Adelphi University. Recipient of the Robert Muroff Poetry Award, her poems and translations appeared in Ambit, Waxwing, The Cortland Review and elsewhere. Her collection The Flavor of The Other was published in 2020 with Dos Madres Press. She is the Translation/International Poetry Editor of The Blue Nib Literary Magazine.
Oral Literature in Africa
Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 1906924708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRuth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Of Chameleons and Gods
Author: Jack Mapanje
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780435911942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 0393348075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I’d chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion” —Cheryl Strayed, Wild “The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman’s heart and mind in language for everybody—language whose plainness, laughter, questions and nobility everyone can respond to. . . . No one is writing better or more needed verse than this.”—Boston Evening Globe
The Light of Invisible Bodies
Author: Jeanne Lohmann
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781564744265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile death waits patiently, the poet waits patiently also, getting the most out of the last light. This book celebrates life while acknowledging death, grief, and widowhood. The theme is light, whether thrown across a landscape or used as a metaphor for transcendence.
Light For The World To See
Author: Kwame Alexander
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 0358566193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwin’s “A Report from Occupied Territory,” Light for the World to See is a rap session on race. A lyrical response to the struggles of Black lives in our world . . . to America’s crisis of conscience . . . to the centuries of loss, endless resilience, and unstoppable hope. Includes an introduction by the author and a bold, graphically designed interior.
The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers
Author: Jessica Powers
Publisher: ICS Publications
Published: 2015-10-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 193927205X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the most extensive anthology of this noted Carmelite poet, which she approved five weeks before her death. Includes introduction by Bishop Morneau, chronology, bibliography, and 4 photos. Jessica Powers (1905-1988), a Discalced Carmelite nun and member of the Carmel of the Mother of God, Pewaukee, Wisconsin, has been hailed as one of America's greatest religious poets. She approved this anthology, the most extensive collection of her poems, only five weeks before her death. This book includes an introduction by Bishop Robert Morneau, over 180 poems, a chronology, a bibliography, and several photos.
Poems of Spiritual Praise
Author: Raymond C. Christian
Publisher:
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781438932736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA spiritual gift to ease your heavy burden. Raymond Christian is an anointed man of God, multi-talented giving all of his success and glory to the one and true God he serves. "Poems of Spiritual Praise" is a precious book of spiritual poems carefully crafted, revealing the unique talents of Raymond's many blessings. This Christian book of poetry will enlighten the world and give each person who reads it a higher understanding of God and the destiny he has for his children. King David in all of his glory danced naked for the Lord just as the poems within the pages of this book will unclothe the very soul of those reading it. 'Poems of Spiritual Praise' will take you to various heights of devotional awareness, it will take you to your praying closet, your secret room, your private place of worship with God. Here are three of Raymond's favorite poems, A Tribute to King Solomon, My Psalm of Praise and My God My Search, these poems will bring expedient satisfaction to your spirit while feeding your very soul. "Poems of Spiritual Praise" will put you on holy ground, you will feel the anointing of Gods holy blessings as one of his vessel. "Poems of Spiritual Praise; Gods Inspirational Gifts" will take you to the depth of the authors creative talents and will leave you at the very throne of God, another level of worship for the children of God to reach for, which poem will become your favorite? Much prayer much power, a little prayer, a little power, no prayer no power, I will see you in church, Amen.
Do What You Have the POWER to Do
Author: Helen Bruch Pearson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-08-07
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1725235900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpen the pages of Do What You Have the POWER to Do and you will meet, face to face and heart to heart, six New Testament women. You may have heard their stories before: the woman who anointed Jesus, the bent-over woman in the synagogue, the insistent Canaanite woman, the woman with the hemorrhage, the woman found in adultery, and the Samaritan woman at the well. After completing this study, you will feel as if you know them. Their empowering stories will become yours.
