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Seven new generation African poets : TJ Dema, Clifton Gachagua, Tsitsi Jaji, Nick Makoha, Ladan Osman, Warsan Shire, Len Verwey

Title: Seven new generation African poets : TJ Dema, Clifton Gachagua, Tsitsi Jaji, Nick Makoha, Ladan Osman, Warsan Shire, Len Verwey / edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani.
Publication: Sleepy Hollow, New York : Slapering Hol Press ; Lincoln, Nebraska : African Poetry Book Fund ; Chicago, Illinois : Poetry Foundation, 2014.

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Description

8 volumes : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Series Statement

Poets in the world series

Uniform Title

Poets in the world.

Subjects

Poets, Black > Africa > Biography
African poetry (English) > 21st century > History and criticism
Africa > Poetry

Note

Title from container.
Box set consists of 8 individual chapbooks issued in slipcase.
Published by Slapering Hol Press in association with the African Poetry Book Fund, Prairie Schooner, and the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Poets in the world series.

Contents

[V. 1]. Seven new generation African poets: an introduction in two movements / edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani -- [v. 2]. Mandible / TJ Dema -- [v. 3]. The cartographer of water / Clifton Gachagua -- [v. 4]. Carnaval / Tsitsi Jaji -- [v. 5]. The second republic / Nick Makoha -- [v. 6]. Ordinary heaven / Ladan Osman -- [v. 7]. Our men do not belong to us / Warsan Shire -- [v. 8]. Otherwise everything goes on / Len Verwey.

Call Number

Sc E 15-1605

ISBN

9781940646589
1940646588
9781940646510
1940646510
9781940646527
1940646529
9781940646534
1940646537
9781940646541
1940646545
9781940646558
1940646553
9781940646565
1940646561
9781940646572
194064657X

OCLC

886918588

Title

Seven new generation African poets : TJ Dema, Clifton Gachagua, Tsitsi Jaji, Nick Makoha, Ladan Osman, Warsan Shire, Len Verwey / edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani.

Publisher

Sleepy Hollow, New York : Slapering Hol Press ; Lincoln, Nebraska : African Poetry Book Fund ; Chicago, Illinois : Poetry Foundation, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Poets in the world series

Poets in the world.

Added Author

Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- editor.

Abani, Chris, editor.

Container of (work): Dema, T. J. Mandible.

Container of (work): Gachagua, Clifton. Cartographer of water.

Container of (work): Jaji, Tsitsi. Carnaval.

Container of (work): Makoha, Nick. Second republic.

Container of (work): Osman, Ladan. Ordinary heaven.

Container of (work): Shire, Warsan, 1988- Our men do not belong to us.

Container of (work): Verwey, Len. Otherwise everything goes on.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-1605

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