The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition by Moore, Gerald

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140424720)

Author: Gerald Moore
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Format: Paperback
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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition by Moore, Gerald

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition

$20.00
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition by Moore, Gerald

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.

Author: Gerald Moore
ISBN-10: 0140424725
ISBN-13: 9780140424720
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.18w x 0.84d
By Gerald Moore
By Gerald Moore
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Gerald Moore was born in London in 1924. After serving in the navy during the war, he read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Apart from ten years in the School of African and Asian Studies at Sussex, he has taught at universities in various parts of Africa and in Hong King. He has also been a visiting professor at UCLA, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Ghana, and the University of Ife. His publications include The Chosen Tongue: English Writing in the Tropical World, Wole Soyinka, Twelve African Writers, and The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. He has also published translations of Mongo Beti, Henri Lopes, Tchicaya U Tam'si, and J.-B. Tati Loutard.

Ulli Beier was born in Germany in 1922. From 1950 to 1971 he taught literature and creative writing at the universities of Ibadan and Papua New Guinea. During the period of 1971 to 1978 he was the director of research institutes in Nigeria and New Guinea. In 1981 he founded and directed IWALEWA Haus, a center for contemporary art, music, and literature from the Third World. He died in 2011.

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