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Breaking the silence : anthology of Liberian poetry / edited by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.
Van Pelt Library PR9384.6 .B74 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African poetry book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberian poetry (English).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 273 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Anthology of Liberian poetry
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation's independence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Early Liberian Poetry, 1800-1959
- Land of the Mighty Dead / Hilary Teage
- Hymn
- "All Hail, Liberia Hail," Liberian National Anthem / Daniel Bashiel Warner
- Wishing to Be "21"
- Heavenly Rest Implored / Robert H. Gibson
- Rise, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk
- Song of the First Emigrants to Cape Palmas
- St Paul's River Liberia / Anonymous
- The Emigrant's Hymn / Pierre
- The Lone Star: A National Song / Edwin James Barclay
- To Pauline
- a Flirt
- To Lygia
- To Jealous Lygia
- Human Greatness
- Afric's Lament
- The Race-Soul
- The Oceans Roar
- Dawn
- Song of the Harmattan
- The Past
- pt. II Liberian Poetry, 1960-1989
- O Maryland! Dear Maryland! / Rev. Father James David Kwee Baker
- Land of the Beautiful
- Cavalla Grand
- Ode to Cape Mount
- Divine Guidance
- Is This Africa / Roland Tombekai Dempster
- Africa's Plea
- The Lone Star Shines
- When You Die
- a Philosophy of Life
- The Poet's Ear
- Take the World Away, but Give Me Freedom
- Go On and Do, Let the People Talk
- To Man
- The Pepper Bird Is Singing
- Liberia in Verse and Song
- A Sonnet
- the Poet's Soul / H. Carey Thomas
- Ask Me Why
- No Longer Yesterday
- Because You Told Me
- When You Sigh
- At Sunset
- Echoes of a Longing Heart
- The Tom-Toms Beat No More
- Ebony Dust / Bai T. Moore
- Monrovia Market Women
- Africa in Retrospect
- The Legend of Shad Tubman
- A Wingless Bird
- My Africa
- The Bulldozer
- The Hallelujah Stuff
- YanaBoys
- The Strength of a Nation
- Ko Bomi hee m koa
- Ba nya m go koma
- Dear Patrice Lumumba / James Roberts
- Our Man on Broad Street
- Unnamed Thing
- Their Words
- Deception
- To Time Our Enemy
- The Old Stream
- pt. III Contemporary Liberian Poetry, 1990-Present
- Who's on Watch? / Althea Romeo-Mark
- Visiting Khufu
- Oya (Wind in Cape Town)
- A Different Kind of Pied Piper 2020
- The Cat-Gods Have Fallen
- Praise Song for My Children / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
- November 12, 1015
- What Took Us to War
- When Monrovia Rises
- I Want to Be the Woman
- Biography When the Wanderers Come Home
- We Departed Our Homelands and We Came
- An Elegy for the St. Peter's Church Massacre
- They Want to Rise Up
- Pittsburgh
- Monrovia Women
- I'm Waiting
- pt. IV Emerging and Aspiring Liberian Poets
- Harper Nedee? / Barth Akpah
- Oche Dike Ala (Grandma Has Gone)
- A Woman / Jee-Won Mawein Esika Arkoi
- If
- My Mothers Tale
- While Tomorrow Waits / Watchen Johnson Babalola
- Divided We Stand
- New Kru Town, Where I Come From / Edwin Olu Bestman
- Darkness, the Surname of a Poor Lover
- How to Write a Dirge for Liberia
- Memories of Home / Edward K. Boateng
- Curing My Mother's Wound
- Genealogy of the Fourteen Pieces of Liberia
- Maybe I'll Go Home
- He Stole a Piece of Me / Tetee Alexandra Bonar
- Identity / Chorlyn E. Chor
- You Are Mine / Sunny Eddie Crawford
- Words in Portrait
- Deepu: A Definition of Divinity / Arthur Shedrick Davies
- Origins of the Poet Next Door
- This Is Poetry
- Free Me / Maureen Jennifer Davies
- Our Mother Is Golzd / Essah Cozett Diaz
- When a Rolling Stone Leaves Pebbles Behind
- For Daughters Who May Never Be Mothers
- For Women Who Are Water in Fields of Rice
- From Coal Pots to Gas Stoves
- I Wasn't Ready to Open My Eyes
- The Brown Beauty / Mawata Dukuly
- Who Is a Leader?
- The Oppressed / James Varney Dwalu
- I Am Nothing (Neutrality)
- Where Were You? / Cynthia Senu Gailor
- Quarantine in Hope / Daniel W. Garteh Jr.
- Africa / Cherbo Geeplay
- The Diary of an Orphan / Aloysius S. Harmon
- Pain as Metaphor
- West Point, Liberia
- Nah Fooh, Nah Fooh / Ruby M. Harmon
- Grey Stone Blues
- Mother and Daughter
- We Need to Pass It On / Quita Harvey
- One World, One People / Laurel Iloani
- The Ebola Ride / Patrice Juah
- An Afro-Madrilena Love Note
- Ebony Perfection / Mcchen A. D. Kanneo
- The Making of Grief / Jeremy Teddy Karn
- Elegy for a Friend
- My First Winter / Evelyn Kehleay-Miller
- I Live Where Billboards Are Broken / Kerry Adamah Kennedy
- Home
- Water Birds / Janetta Konah
- My Grieving Mother
- Memorabilia
- The Life of a Poet / Nvasekie Konneh
- My Father's Last Prayer
- Rock Your Jaws / Lekpele M. Nyamalon
- You Post Stockade
- Say Nothing / Jackie Sayegh
- Sing to Me, Ade: On Reading "Praise Song for My Children" / Eunice Sua Seyaker
- Ashes of My Heart / Lamelle Shaw
- Nomad Child / Mohamed Sheriff
- The First Heartbeat
- Tragedies / Joshua T. G. Smith
- Let's Be Cool / Prince U. D. Tardeh
- Red Light / Augustine F. Taylor Jr.
- Earth's a Battlefield / Ayouba Toure
- On Searching for Peace from Within
- The Women of Monrovia Are Citizens of Heaven
- Rebirth
- The Home in Ruin / Kulah K. Washington
- Peace / Vermon Washington
- If We Could Love Again
- Monrovia Vagrants / Othello Weh
- Sit Down
- Monrovia Flood
- The Secrets of September / Korto Williams
- As If I Never Left / Masnoh Wilson.
- ISBN:
- 9781496233066
- 1496233069
- OCLC:
- 1337143137
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