Musings on ars poetica : poetic reflections on the poet and poetry in verse / Bill F. Ndi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ndi, Bill F.

Series:

African Studies Centre research series.

Langaa & African Studies Centre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroonian poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A literary monument erected by a poet for poets with a vision for poetry as a special annunciation and the poet as a seer, spokesperson, recorder, analyst, adjudicator and advocate with poetic vision and poetic understanding. Bill Ndi, the poet has the rare gift of slipping into the self and psyche of his society to empty the dark depths where the treasures of burden and sadness are hidden. He empties and exposes them to the world to see how even personal repression of feelings by far outweighs those imposed throughout History by tyrants. It is above all, his greatest task of filling these dep

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Authors Note; Acknowledgement; The Way To Go; What We Do, What They Do; Consistency; Some of the Best; Talking and Hearing; Eee After Vee; Poets' Pen Prick; Big Bags With Lust Full; Sharp Thorny Pen; Tend to the King's Ear; Put not Asunder; My Clean Hands; Back to Sender; Frail and Strong; Bangolan Question; Not Sweets; Thorny Forebear; Thinking of High (Rivalry); Of the Good Shepherd; No Cheating Lane; Just The Bun King; One & Only Number One; Steel Sensitive; Boy/Speaker; The Journey; Dream On! We'll Be Loyal; Ring Till They Fly

Spiky HirsuteChange II; Blood & Fire; The Grass and the Beasts of this Earth; Our Case; Before You Hang Me; Message Bearer to the Monster; Boxed in a Farm; Dixeption; As I approach my grave; The Poet and the Human World; To Grace Dethrone; The Walls of My Love; The Last Word; Poet's Heart's Desire; The Grip on our Health; Rhythm of the Lands; Song Number 13; Tears for Peace and Love; Dulcet; Travelling on the Spot; Hearing The Voiceless; Transparency; May Be In A Dream; The Seine by Night; Cartridges; The Seer; Heart and tongue; The Transporter; Where we differ; The Scum B...!; Haunting Past

Hands and HeartBeyond Desire; Fool Not Thyself; Tickle Their Minds; What does it matter?; Strong, Strong Weak; Commemoration; The Messenger; I Wonder; The Voice Of A Resting Soul; In Search For It; Biography; Mitigation (Plea by a marooned Pen); The Dirge; Autobiography; Urbane Urchin; Optimists; The Triad; The Great Journey; Thinking Freedom; The Pungent Staple; Help for the President; On the Coming Time; The wealth of Clouds' Voyage (Baby Understanding); Animists 2 Pray!; Let us Dream; The Poets' See, Saw; Word Power: Dilly; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613198259

9781283198257

1283198258

9789956716364

9956716367

9789956716487

9956716480

9789956615179

995661517X

OCLC:

830165643