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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.
Cendrars was an early exponent of Modernism in European poetry with his works: The Legend of Novgorode (1907), Les Pâques à New York (1912), La Prose du Transsibérien et la Petite Jehanne de France (1913), Séquences (1913), La Guerre au Luxembourg (1916), Le Panama ou les aventures de mes sept oncles (1918), J'ai tué (1918), and Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques (1919).
Francis Jammes (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒam]; 2 December 1868, in Tournay – 1 November 1938, in Hasparren) was a French and European poet.He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life (donkeys, maidens).
Pierre Gringore was born in Normandy, at Thury-Harcourt, but the exact date and place of his death are unknown.His first work was Le Chasteau de Labour (1499), an allegorical poem.
Pinkney does them proud in expansive wordless spreads between the poems plus full-page art facing each poem;". [1] Booklist', in a starred review, found "Words and pictures swinging together capture the Sweethearts in full cry." [1] and School Library Journal wrote "Nelson's syncopated poetry jives perfectly with Pinkney's layered watercolors". [1]
"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).