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New-generation African poets : a chapbook box set
- Title
- New-generation African poets : a chapbook box set / edited by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani.
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | 12 issues | Text | Use in library | Sc E 21-1366 12 issues | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 12 volumes; 23 cm (in slip case, 24 cm).
- Series Statement
- African poetry book series
- Uniform Title
- African poetry book series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- 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.
- Contents
- [v.1] An introduction in two movements / by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani -- [v.2] Enumeration / Sadia Hassan -- [v.3] A girl is a sovereign state / Jamila Osman -- [v.4] Gray latitudes / Michelle K. Angwenyi -- [v.5] Measurement of holy / Nadra Mabrouk -- [v.6] A mouthful of home / Tryphena Yeboah -- [v.7] Notes on resilience / Safia Jama -- [v.8] The origin of name / Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau -- [v.9] Psalm for chrysanthemums / Nkateko Masinga -- [v.10] Revolution of the scavengers / Henneh Kyereh Kwaku -- [v.11] Try kissing God / Afua Ansong -- [v. 12] Yellowline / Fatima Camara.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-1366
- ISBN
- 1617758167
- 9781617758164
- 9781617758799
- 1617758795
- 9781617758935
- 1617758930
- 9781617758805
- 1617758809
- 9781617758843
- 1617758841
- 9781617758850
- 161775885X
- 9781617758867
- 1617758868
- 9781617758782
- 1617758787
- 9781617758812
- 1617758817
- 9781617758874
- 1617758876
- 9781617758836
- 1617758833
- 9781617758829
- 1617758825
- OCLC
- 1133127726
- Title
- New-generation African poets : a chapbook box set / edited by Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African poetry book seriesAfrican poetry book series.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- editor, author.Abani, Chris, editor, author.Hassan, Sadia, author.Osman, Jamila, author.Angwenyi, Michelle K., author.Mabrouk, Nadra, author.Yeboah, Tryphena, author.Jama, Safia, author.Agarau, Adedayo Adeyemi, author.Masinga, Nkateko Priscilla, author.Kwaku, Henneh Kyereh, author.Ansong, Afua, 1993- author.Camara, Fatima, author.African Poetry Book Fund, sponsoring body.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-1366