An edition of The Promise of Hope (2014)

The Promise of Hope

New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013

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New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013

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University of Nebraska Press
Language
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Pages
297

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African poetry (English), Poetry (poetic works by one author)
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The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013
2014, University of Nebraska Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note:
From Herding the Lost Lambs (2013) --
The Light Is On --
The New Boy on the Block --
Across a New Dawn --
Songs of Abuse --
To Feed Our People --
To the Ancient Poets --
Counting the Years --
Once More --
On the Gallows Once --
Truth --
What Brought Me Here? --
What More Can I Give? --
Those Gone Ahead --
Up in the Garden --
Xiansi, Pou Tou Dalla --
I'll Raise a New Song --
Remembrance --
From Latin American & Caribbean Notebook (1992) --
In Memoriam --
Of Home and Sea I Already Sang --
Of Home Once More --
Rio de Janeiro: Fearful and Lovely City --
Distant Home Country --
Agra: January 21, 1989 --
Cuban Chapters --
The Hero's Blood --
Of Faith and Fortitude --
The Orient Express --
Betrayers --
Havana, Cuba: The Free Territory of the Americas --
A Caress --
For Tenu and Afetsi: A Hymn --
Of Niggerhood --
A Death Foretold
The Prophecy from Iran --
In Memoriam: Return to Kingston --
Lover's Song --
The Red Bright Book of History --
At a Time Like This --
Back with Sandino --
Prayer --
The Ancient Twine --
Seatime, Another --
Readings and Musings --
Light Hours in Verse --
Time Revisited --
A Thin Echo of Time's Voice --
"As Long As There Are Tears and Suffering, So Long Our Work Will Not Be Over," Jawaharlal Nehru" --
The Girl that Died in Havana --
Our Pride Alone --
Dream -- Again --
New Rain --
Birds on an Autumn Wire --
Shamla Hills: Bhopal --
Shamla Hills: Sanchi Temples --
Childhood --
Parting --
From Until the Morning After (1987) --
Life's Tears --
So the World Changes --
Life's Winds --
Grains and Tears --
Had Death Not Had Me in Tears --
Act of Faith --
I Rejoice --
The Picture --
For Ezeki --
From The House by the Sea (1978) -- -- pt. ONE
Before the Journey Poems, Fall '73 --
The Land Endures --
Going Somehow --
After the Exile and the Feasts
Some Talk of Lunar Virgins --
Poem --
Poetry --
Departure and Prospect --
When Going into Jail --
Africa --
Poem --
Of Absence --
Poem --
Poem --
Sequences --
For Henoga Vinoko Akpalu --
An American Poem --
Another Lover's Song --
Self-Portrait -- -- pt. TWO
Homecoming... Poems from Prison --
Homecoming --
The Second Circle: Beginning Midnight, 5/1/76 --
On Being Told of Torture --
The First Circle --
Dream of Home --
Revolution --
To Sika on Her 11th Birthday --
Revolution: A Chat with Ho Chi Minh's Ghost --
Found Poem --
Another Found Poem --
The Place --
Poem --
Us --
Love --
Personal Note --
Sea Time, Meaning a Pledge --
The Will to Die --
A Little Word --
The Wayfarer Comes Home --
From Ride Me, Memory (1973) --
America --
Harlem on a Winter Night --
Long Island Sketches --
To My Uncle Jonathan: A Song of Abuse --
To Felicity, a Girl I Met in LA --
Hymns of Praise, Celebration, and Prayer --
Afro-American Beats --
Etchings from My Mind
My Father's Prayer --
My Uncle the Diviner -- Chieftain --
To Sika --
To Those Gone Ahead --
From Night of My Blood (1971) --
I Heard a Bird Cry --
Night of My Blood --
Stop the Death-Cry --
A Dirge --
More Messages --
At the Gates --
The Dance --
Do Not Handle It --
All Men My Brothers --
Lament of the Silent Sisters --
Hymn To My Dumb Earth --
They Do Not Sound for Me --
From Rediscovery and Other Poems (1964) --
My God of Songs Was Ill --
The Sea Eats the Land at Home --
The Cathedral --
What Song Shall We Sing --
We Have Found a New Land --
The Anvil and the Hammer --
Rediscovery --
The Weaver Bird --
The Purification --
The Gone Locusts --
Songs of Sorrow --
From This Earth, My Brother: An Allegorical Tale of Africa (1971) --
The Making of the New Nation (Chapter 2a) --
From Comes the Voyager at Last: A Tale of Return to Africa (1992) --
Festival of Oneness.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (page 297).

Series
African Poetry Book Series, African poetry book series
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.91
Library of Congress
PR9379.9.A9 A6 2014, PR9379.9.A9A6 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 297 pages
Number of pages
297

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27168668M
ISBN 10
0803249896
ISBN 13
9780803249899
LCCN
2013034296
OCLC/WorldCat
857754047

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