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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”.
He was born in the town of Salamiyah, Hama Governorate, in Syria to an Isma'ili family. [citation needed] He was married to the poet Saniya Salih.[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.
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
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The poem is characterized by its use of the montage, a cinematic technique of quickly cutting from one scene to another in order to juxtapose disparate images, and its use of contemporary jazz modes like boogie-woogie, bop and bebop, both as subjects in the individual short poems and as a method of structuring and writing the poetry. [5]
Three Stories and Ten Poems is a collection of short stories and poems by Ernest Hemingway. It was privately published in 1923 in a run of 300 copies by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris. [1] The three stories are: "Up in Michigan" "Out of Season" "My Old Man" The ten poems are: "Mitraigliatrice" "Oklahoma" "Oily Weather ...
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 ...
And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.