The Penguin book of modern African poetry / edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Gerald.

Beier, Ulli.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African poetry.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 448 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Other Title:

Modern African poetry.

Place of Publication:

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1998.

Summary:

Throughout the century some of the most startlingly original poetry in the world has come from Africa. This new and substantially expanded edition, containing the poetry of ninety-nine poets (thirty-one of them in print for the first time) from twenty-seven countries, displays the wide-ranging forms or African verse: from war songs and political protests to poems about human love, African nature, and the surprises and ironies of modern life. Featuring modern masters of African poetry -- such as L. S. Senghor, Augustinho Neto, Tchicaya U Tam'si, Okot p'Bitek, and Christopher Okigbo -- the volume also includes poets who are still at the beginning of their development. These rich and colorful pages demonstrate a passion, spontaneity, and sensuousness uncommon in most contemporary poetry.

Notes:

First published in 1963 as Modern poetry from Africa.

Includes bibliography and indexes.

ISBN:

0141181001

OCLC:

40116224