Poesia Africana / African Poetry - 'MODERN POETRY FROM AFRICA' by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier - London 1963 - VERY RARE / MUITO RARO;

Poesia Africana / African Poetry - Uma importante é histórica Antologia da poesia africana dos princípios da década de sessenta, que inclui poetas dos países de expressão portuguesa (Angola, Cabo Verde, Moçambique e S. Tomé)


'MODERN POETRY FROMA AFRICA'
Edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier
Penguin African Library
London 1963


Book with 192 pages, in good condition.
Livro com 192 páginas e em bom estado de conservação.
VERY RARE / MUITO RARO.


CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements
Introduction

MADAGASCAR
Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo - Four poems from Traduits de la nuit: (2) 'What invisible rat'; (3) 'The hide of the black cow'; (4) 'She whose eyes; (17) 'The black glassmaker'; Cactus;
Flavien Ranaivo - Song of a Young Girl; Song of a common lover;

SENEGAL
Léopold Sédar Senghor - In memoriam; Night of sine; Luxembourg 1939; Totem; Paris in the snow; Blues; The dead; Prayer to masks; Visit; All day long; In what tempestuous; New York; You held the black face; I will pronounce your name; Be nor amazed;
David Diop - listen comrades; Your presence; The renegade; Africa; The vultures; To a black dancer; Nigger tramp;
Birago Diop - Diptych; Omen; Vanity; Ball; Viatcum;

GAMBIA
Lenrie Peters - Homecoming; Song; We have come home;

GHANA
Kwesi Brew - A plea for mercy; The search;
Ellis Avitey Komey - The change;
G. Awoomar-Williams - Songs sorrow; Song of war; The sea eats the land at home;

NIGERIA
John Pepper Clark - Olokun; Night rain; The imprisonment of Obatala; Easter; For granny (from hospital); Ibadam; Fulani Cattle; Cry of birth; Abiku;
Gabriel Okara - The snowflakes sail gently down; Piano and drums; Were I to choose; The mystic drum; Adhiambo; Spirit of the wind; One night at Victoria Beach;
Frank Aig-Imoukhuede - One wife for one man;
Michael Echeruo - Sophia;
Christopher Okigbo - Live apart; Eight poems form Heavens-gate: Overture; Eyes watch the stars; Water maid; Transition; Sacrifice; Passion flower; Lustration; Bridge; - Four poems from Limits Siren (& the mortar is not yet dry ...): (1) 'Suddenly becoming talkative'; (2) 'For he was a shrub among the poplars'; (3) 'Banks of reed'; (4) 'An image insists'
Wole Soyinka - Telephone conversation; Death in the dawn; Requiem; Prisoner; I Think it Rains; Season; Night; Abiku;

CONGO (Brazzaville)
Tchicaya U Tam'si - Brush-fire; Dance to the Amulets; Still life; A mat to were;

CONGO (Leopoldville)
Antoine-Roger Bolamba - Portrait; A fistful of news;

CAPE VERDE ISLANDS
Aguinaldo Fonseca - Tavern by the sea;

SÃO TOMÉ
Alda do Espírito Santo - Where are the men seized in this wind of Madness ?;

ANGOLA
Agostinho Neto - Farewell at the moment of parting;
António Jacinto - Monangamba;

SOUTH AFRICA
Mazisi Kunene - To the Proud; The echoes; Farewell; As long as I live;
Bloke Modisane - Ionely;

NYASALAND
David Rubadiri - An African Thunderstorm;

KENYA
John Mbiti - New York Skyscrapers;
Joseph Kariuki - Come away, my love;

MOÇAMBIQUE
José Craveirinha - The seed is in Me; Three dimensions;
Noemia de Sousa - Apeal;
Valente Malangatana - To the Anxious Mother; Woman;

Sources of the poems
Notes on the authors
Index of first lines


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