New-generation African poets. Saba : a chapbook box set / edited by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

African Poetry Book Fund, sponsoring body.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- editor, author.

Abani, Chris, editor, author.

Series:

African poetry book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African poetry (English)--21st century.

African poetry (English).

Africans--Poetry.

Africans.

Africa--Poetry.

Africa.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

12 volumes ; 23 cm (in slip case, 24 cm).

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Sujui

I Smell the Season of Rain Well Before It Is Upon Us

Jesus at Wynfield Station

Interlude in My Lover's Mouth

Enumeration

A Catalog of Fears

A Boy Was Killed in Clarkston

A Catalog of Praise

My Father Watches Michelle Obama Garden While Mama Cooks

What the Living Do

Donald Duck at the End of the World

Prayer

Original Sin

Winter

Girls, Girls, Girls

Sovereign

English Lessons

The Female of the Species

Wound

California

Patriots

In the Voice of the Mad Mullah

In Which We Pretend There Was Never a War

Memorial

pt. I Gray Latitudes

Images

There Are the Finches

pt. II Gray Latitudes

How Swiftly Everything Fell into Place after That

pt. I In the Space of What's Ended

pt. II In the Space of What's Ended

The Fear of Animals that Look Too Much Like Us

Anger Was a Dark Blue

I Hope You Can Dance Now

It Is Absurd to Keep the Bones

Salt

Night-time

pt. III Gray Latitudes

The Condition

Autumn, Spiraling

Smallness

For the Bagged Body in Front of Koshary Ameen Restaurant

Last Night I Was a Moth's Width Running through the Streets

On Not Praying in Two Years

Morning on Bedford Avenue

Mother as Goat Bone, Wrapped in Aluminum

Portrait of the Country in Which I Was Born

Brother as Younger Self, Humming

The Poultry Trader's Daughter Inherits the Business

The Condition, Again

Father as Adolescent, Smoking

Myth of Your Imagined Return

The Prophecy

I Am Nothing If I Can't Breathe Joy

We Kept Our Hands up, in Prayer and in Surrender

My Body, Having Learned Resurrection

I Tell My Mother I Want a Body That Expands

At Church, I Watch My Mother Dance the Cancer Away

I, Too, Have Been Trying to Exist in My Own Body

I Sing Therefore We Sing

You Think Every Door Swings Open for You

A God of Ash

Honoring What My Family Will Never Know

Where the Body Has Been

The Body as Proof

Reporting Abuse

Now I Do Not Even Look at the Sky

Possible Terror Attack, Churches Targeted

The Hands That Seized Your Joy Are Empty

And What If I Breathe Out

pt. I Somalia

Dad's Last Visit

Two Gifts

The Victorian Era

My Brother's Menagerie

Agnes Martin Retrospective

Bream

Lies

pt. II Home Leave

Two Sisters

My White Mother Makes Lemon Meringue

Notes on Resilience

Public Television

Home Leave

Elegy

Aubade for a Child with His Umbilical Cord Tied around His Neck

Orunmila

First Offering

How We Bury a Child That Didn't Make It Home Alive

An Analysis of Isolation

A Portrait of My Sister as Talabi

A Child Whose Cry at Birth Suggests Distress

The Gods Ask Us to Make an Oasis

Bantale Drowning in a Flower Room

The Naming of Things

Abiku

The God of Thunder Struck My Father While He Fled the Night I Was Born

In This Poem the God of Iron Takes Over a Child

[A Question About Loss]

The Cross and the Crossing

Inheritance

Venus Fly Trap

Amaechi

Catharsis

For the Ghastly Going

Psalm for Chrysanthemums

Regression

Inpatient

My Lover Pulls Me off the Train Tracks

My Lover Pulls Me off the Train Tracks, Again

My Lover Pulls Me off the Train Tracks Too Late

Something Is in the Water

Even in Our Differences There's a Similarity

Mourning My Country

Anything for the Boys?

In This Mine, We Pray

The Fear of a Thing Is the Beginning of a Search

Abracadabra (An Empty Ark Is No Different from No Ark)

Whatever Makes Us Laugh Isn't a Joke

Welcoming a Ghanaian God

Kutsiami

Noah

A Fireball Screams

Never Again

Murder in the Creek

Revolution of the Scavengers

Lazy Youth

Sankcfa: Go back for it/return for it

Adinkrahene: King of the Adinkra symbols

Nyame Dua: Tree of God/God's altar

Boa Me Na Me Mmoa Wo: Help me so I can help you

Nyame Nti: Because of God

Nyame Ne Hene: God is king

Nya Gyidie: Have faith Gye Nyame: Receive God/if not for God

Pempamsie: Sew in readiness

Asase Ye DURU: The earth is heavy

Tamfo Bebre: The enemy will suffer

EPA: Handcuffs

Duafe: Wooden comb

Fihankra: Safe compound house

Donno: Drums

CDC Nnyew Fie Kwan: Love never loses its way home

Gye Nyame: Except for God/if not for God

Of Breath

Obligation

Prep

Anew

Sanno

With Time

Repetition

Choice

Instead of Mourning.

Notes:

Title from slipcase.

Issued in slipcase (24 x 16 x 6 cm).

Seventh chapbook box set in the New-generation African poets series ("saba" is seven in Swahili). The series is an annual project of the African Poetry Book Fund--established through the generosity of Laura and Robert F.X. Sillerman and published in collaboration with Akashic Books--which seeks to identify the best poetry written by African authors working today, with a special focus on those who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

1617758167

9781617758164

OCLC:

1133127726

Publisher Number:

99986122964