Becoming Ebony [electronic resource] / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh.

Series:

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberian Americans--Poetry.

Liberian Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; 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; Two; 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; Three; 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 EarthBecoming Ebony; Four; 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; Glossary; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-8886-3

1-299-05061-1

OCLC:

856870333