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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”.
Mtshali was born in Vryheid, Natal, South Africa. [1] He worked as a messenger in Soweto before becoming a poet, and his first book, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum (1975), explores both the banality and extremity of apartheid through the eyes of working men of South Africa, even while it recalls the energy of those Mtshali frequently calls simply "ancestors".
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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 Centipede's Dilemma" is a short poem that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome.The centipede effect occurs when a normally automatic or unconscious activity is disrupted by consciousness of it or reflection on it.
Dr. Mike at Minicon 38 in 2003. John Milo "Mike" Ford (April 10, 1957 – September 25, 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.. A contributor to several online discussions, [2] Ford composed poems, often improvised, in both complicated forms and blank verse; he also wrote pastiches and parodies of many other authors and styles.
Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) [1] was an Indian poet, actor, playwright, editor, and art critic. [2] He was a foundational figure [3] in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian poetry in English.
Scholar Dolly McPherson calls the book "a graphic portrait of the adult self in bloom" [2] and critic Lyman B. Hagen calls it "a journey of discovery and rebirth". [3] In Singin' and Swingin, Angelou examines many of the same subjects and themes in her previous autobiographies including travel, music, race, conflict, and motherhood.