Research Catalog

Title

The parley tree : an anthology of poets from French-speaking Africa and the Arab world / translated by Patrick Williamson with Yann Lovelock ; edited and introduced by Patrick Williamson ; with a preface by Tahar Bekri.

Publication

Todmorden : Arc Publications, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Williamson, Patrick
• Lovelock, Yann.
• Lovelock, Yann, 1939-
• Bekri, Tahar, 1951-

Description

217 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Arbres à palabres
• Arbres à palabres

Subject

• African poetry (French) > Translations into English
• African poetry (French)

Genre/Form

Translations

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: ALGERIA -- Mohammed Dib -- Migrant -- beast -- More than ever alive -- Thing -- River -- Habib Tengour / Patrick Williamson -- Four times azure and five -- water's edge -- poem -- Cameroon / Paul Dakeyo -- Soweto, suns shot down (extracts) -- song of silence (extracts) -- Chad / Nimrod -- cry of the bird -- Tibesti (extracts) -- Yet the Infanta of Salamanca... (extracts) -- Congo Brazzaville / Alain Mabanckou -- When the cock announces the dawn of another day (extracts) -- Tchicaya U Tam'si / Yann Lovelock -- Summary of a passion (extracts) -- Democratic Republic of Congo / Kama Sywor Kamanda -- In the silence of hearts -- song of resistance -- song of destiny -- Haunted houses -- beating of the drums -- Djibouti / Abdourahman A. Waberi -- Desires -- Truce -- Engravings -- Nomadic miniatures -- Untitled -- Tales of yesterday -- Ivory Coast / Tanella Boni --
• gift still to come (four poems) -- Goree baobab island (four poems) -- Lebanon / Venus Khoury-Ghata -- shades (extracts) -- Mauritius / Edouard Maunick -- I once was a tree -- Khal Torabully / Patrick Williamson -- Cantata for the child from Cana (extract) -- Les Indiades, Odes to Pessoa (extract) -- Dark light cast on Aapravisi Ghat (extract) -- Hold full of stars, Coolitude (extracts) -- Dialogue of water and salt (extracts) -- red shadow of gazelles (extract) -- Morocco / Abdellatif Laabi -- Small clean slate (extracts) -- Shoulders and the burden (extracts) -- Senegal / Babacar Sall -- Bed of sand (extracts) -- Amadou Lamine Sall / Patrick Williamson -- My country is not a dead country -- Tunisia / Tahar Bekri -- Afghanistan -- Shade -- Dream at Trieste -- Fisherman of Moons -- Shams Nadir / Patrick Williamson -- other Sindbad (extracts) -- Echoes of Isla Negra -- Amina Said / Patrick Williamson --
• "each day the sun..." -- "the mothers sleep..." -- "from our birth place...".

ISBN

• 9781906570613 (pbk.)
• 1906570612 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 779245972
• SCSB-10647780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library