Coils of mortal flesh / Ba'bila Mutia.
- Format:
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (83 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Mankon, Bamenda [Cameroon] : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG [Common Initiative Group], 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""The diverse voices in the poems in this collection are unified in the single voice of the omnipresent persona who appears to be searching for a collective voice, some kind of order or rhythm that would impose meaning to life. Reading the poems constitutes an individual journey. This poetic journey from Awakening that takes the reader to Moonlight Spells & Wreaths and leads her/him through Laments to the Epilogue is a continuous movement in the search for humanity's existence. As a metaphor of self-discovery, the poetic quest is both an expression of, and a search for mankind's elusive self-t
- Contents:
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- Awakening
- Moonlight spells & wreaths
- Laments
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
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- Description based on print version record.
- "Except for "The Ascent" that was written in March 2007 when Bate Besong passed away, the rest of the poems in this collection were composed and published between 1973 and 1992."--p. ix.
- ISBN:
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- 9786613197856
- 9781283197854
- 1283197855
- 9789956715381
- 9956715387
- 9789956715503
- 9956715506
- 9789956615667
- 9956615668
- OCLC:
- 646835894
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