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The African Saga is a collection of poems by Ugandan poet Susan Nalugwa Kiguli. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Published in 1998, it won the National Book Trust of Uganda Poetry Award (1999), [ 3 ] It is a collection of 95 poems in four sections: “Poems of Protest”, “Relational Poems”, “Poems of Nature” and “Existential Poems”.
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[1] Muhammad Maghout has been credited as the father of Arabic free verse poetry, liberating Arabic poems from the traditional form and revolutionizing the structure of the poem. While in prison in the 1950s, he wrote his first poems on cigarette papers as a personal memoir of his prison experience, later discovered to be revolutionary poetry.
Aileen Lucia Fisher (September 9, 1906 – December 2, 2002) was an American writer of more than a hundred children's books, including poetry, picture books in verse, prose about nature and America, biographies, Bible-themed books, plays, and articles for magazines and journals. Her poems have been anthologized many times and are frequently ...
The book sold well in the United Kingdom, making The Times list of the year's top 10 books and becoming the top-selling book of poetry in Britain. [ 3 ] The title eunoia , which literally means good thinking , is a medical term for the state of normal mental health , and is also the shortest word in the English language which contains all five ...
The effect is also known as hyperreflection or Humphrey's law [1] after English psychologist George Humphrey (1889–1966), who propounded it in 1923. As he wrote of the poem, "This is a most psychological rhyme. It contains a profound truth which is illustrated daily in the lives of all of us". The effect is the reverse of a solvitur ambulando.
Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, [2] and has been described as a classic. [ 3 ] The anthology consists of 114 poems, including ones by Ezra Pound , Edna St. Vincent Millay and e. e. cummings , but also ones by lesser-known poets.
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed by Willis in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma around 1840. He may have been inspired by the sight of the Red River, by which he was toiling, which reminded him of the Jordan River and of the Prophet Elijah being taken to heaven by a chariot (2 Kings 2:11).