Toil and delivery : poems by Bill F. Ndi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ndi, Bill F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroonian poetry (English).

Ndi, Bill F.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bill NDIÌs Toil and Delivery can be as playful and loaded as the clues in a cryptic crossword puzzle, which is to say that they are marked by a strange, energetic hybridity. They occupy a dynamic space between nursery rhyme and visionary Romantic verse, between the colloquial and the archaic, between postmodernity and anachronism. They are local and global, political and personal, Western and non-Western. With experiences traversing both Africa and the West, Bill F. NDI is one of those poets who gives meaning to the word globalisation. He embraces poetry as a material act in a troubled world,

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Content; AUTHOR'S NOTES; FOREWORD; Tyro; SANDER & CHRISTER; PAYING THE PRICE THRICE TO RICE; TIME; SPECTACLES; THE BROKEN BOND; WHAT DOES IT MATTER?; STRONG, STRONG WEAK; CHILDHOOD RAIN SHOWERS; FRUITS OF BLISS; A CHILDLESS FATHER HOPES; A TRIBUTE TO EVERY MOTHER; THE UNDERGROUND PARIS; BORN FREE FREEBORN; BOXING RING; TOURIST EXTRAORDINAIRE!; COMMEMORATION; OUR AWE OBJECTS; PRURIENCE; VOMIT; THE MESSENGER; BOB DOWN THAT JOY; BITCH SONG; I WONDER; THE VOICE OF A RESTING SOUL; THE WAY TO GO; CAPTAIN SALUTES ALL; THE UNSEEN; IN SEARCH FOR IT

COMING OF ASHINFIDELITY IS NOT WOMAN; THE RETURN HOME; FOR BETTER & ....; BROOMSTICK; THE MADMAN SAID:; BIOGRAPHY; COUNCILORS: NONFORM; MAILMAN; MY KEY; ACUMEN; MITIGATION (Plea by a marooned Pen).; HEROIC ENTERPRISE; THE DIRGE; BARREN DAYS; SEA FARING; CALM DOWN; RIVULET; DESTINY; MORPHEUS; THE CALLER; IRREVOCABLE VOICE; TABLETS OF LIFE; FOR SURVIVAL; WANT; ASSETS; GRANNY FROM A DEEP SLUMBER; FIRST AND LAST SPACE; EGG DESTRUCTION; ON HER NATIVITY; CHASTISEMENT; EQUALITY; THE FEAST; DELIRIUM; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BECOMING A WAIF; NOSTALGIA; GINNERS; CHANGE; CHASE OF THE TRIUMPHANT; DYING '85

THE BLIGHTURCHIN; THE PLANTS' CALL: THE HIDDEN NAME; DEMISE'S RESIDENCE; MINERVA'S GRAVE; PROSELYTIST; OPTIMISTS; SEVEN OVER ALL; SCULLERY; HEART BEATS; MY LETTER; SEEING FROM THE OTHER SIDE; MY STAR; Back Cover

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9786613004789

9781283004787

128300478X

9789956579259

9956579254

9789956578238

9956578231

9789956578665

9956578665

OCLC:

830165640