| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 79 pages) |
| Series |
Crab Orchard award series in poetry |
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Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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| Contents |
My Birth at the Doorpost -- I Used to Own This Town -- Get Out of Here, Boys! -- Requiem for Auntie -- Today Is Already Too Much -- For Marie Antoinette -- In the Beginning -- This Is What I Tell My Daughter -- War Baby -- The Moon Poem -- They Want to Rise Up -- Elegy to West Point Fishermen -- Coming Home to Iyeeh -- A Dirge for Charles Taylor -- Around the Mountains -- Elegy for Dessie -- Transfiguration -- When I Meet Moses -- For Robert Frost -- The Corrupt Shall Rise Incorruptible -- We've Done It All -- The World in Long Lines -- All the Soft Things of Earth -- Becoming Ebony -- For My Husband -- Wandering Child -- Small Desires -- When I Rise to Look the Sunshine in Its Bare Eye -- A Poem for My Father -- In This Town -- My Neighbors' Dogs -- A Letter to My Brother Coming to America -- My New Insurance Plan -- These Are the Reasons the Living Live -- M-T, Turning Thirteen -- Winter Street -- A Snowwoman in Her Dying Hour -- I Now Wander -- I Am Acquainted with Waiting |
| Summary |
Recapturing the celebratory voice of Africa in poems that are both contemporary and traditional, Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley weaves lyrical storytelling with oral history and images of Africa and America, revealing powerful insights about the relationship between strength and tragedy-and finding reason to celebrate even in the presence of war, difficulties, and death. Rooted in myths that can be traced to the Grebo tradition, Becoming Ebony portrays Liberian-born Wesley's experiences of village talk and civil war as well as her experiences of the pain of her mother |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Liberian Americans -- Poetry
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Liberian Americans
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002010912 |
| ISBN |
9780809388868 |
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0809388863 |
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1299050611 |
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9781299050617 |
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