Shades of Black Edward Dzonze ; edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dzonze, Edward, author.

Contributor:

Mwanaka, Tendai R., editor.

Series:

New African poets series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Human skin color.

Human skin color--Poetry.

Race--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 107 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, [2020]

Summary:

The pastor preach, the congregates bleach....here the artist is called to question the essence of morality in the wake of moral decadence. When the people speak and the superiors they speak to, take a dive deep into the questionable pools, the people speak to question, here the artist is called to sing. When the sun denies us the lustre at anticipated times, when the moon submits to darkness before we see the road awaiting us...we paint the pictures to depict the terrain and ask a question or plenty. When the land we have cannot make a home for us.... Unfathomably so, everybody wants to know how i lost the brighter shades of my skin colour to the political machinations of the Addis Ababa parliament. Verily I say; those are the Shades of Black for you.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Black Coffee

The Geek before the Mirror

Desperate Virgins

Broken Guitar

Mourning the Fall of The Antidote

Here We Stand

Animal Farm: A tale of Hyenas and the sheep

House of Hunger (Tittie Borrowed)

Rivers Running Dry

Orphans of His Legendary

Guns and Bulldozers

Heart of a Woman

Remembering Aunt Mucha

Roaming Bird

Raising the Verse

The Bloody Spear & The known Machete

Shades of Black

The Urchin in the Picture

Letter to my daughter

Letter to my son

Bhema Valley

Tap of Cholera

Beyond the Writer's Day and Page

Bowing to Kiss the tomb of the Legend

surprise Call

Loving Lo

Spelling my Flo

Here is to Flo again

Blowing Wind

We are Africa

Peace on the Run

April the 19th: A child is born Today

Peace in Pieces

This Aint the Non Believer's Journey

The Living and The Soar Song

Fuck the Caption

The Irony of Freedom

The Black Hatred that Lives

Memories of a Soar Reign

The way of poetry

As if word is dead

The Cock that Crows at Home

Maybe my name is not a name

Vultures and Vipers

Cemetery of Mind

Africa; To Whom it may concern

African Sunset: How their choices make our World Bleak

Diplomatic Call

Made of Black

The Politician and The Povo: How the Music plays in the Zoo

A Cry for Peace

Living Black, Loving Black

Winking in Ink

Dancing in the dark.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781779295941

1779295944

OCLC:

1225624376