literature
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Voices from Haiti: Storm (English Version) by Kwame Dawes English version of the visual poem Storm with poetry by Kwame Dawes, images by Andre Lambertson. For Malia Jean From here the mountains around Port-au-Prince are green; too far to see the denuded hillside, too far to see the brown wounds, too far to see the…
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Reggae for me is very much associated with the ’70’s, with a time of a lot of self-questioning, nationally, individually. And not just self-questioning, because also I think it was very much a time when people were open to ideas about what I will just loosely call the spiritual world, you know, the inner world.…
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The other day, roam reading my way through Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, I found myself reading a delightfully powerfully poem by Frank X. Walker. I liked the poem, titled Homeopathic, so much that I googled him to see what I could find out. Homeopathic – Frank X Walker The unripe…
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The public library has become my new bookstore. Yesterday, I went book shopping there and got the following books: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter If you know me, then you know I am in no way, shape or form, a supporter of mainstream politics, let along presidents of the united states, former or…
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One of the blogs I follow is Kinna Reads. Today I received in my inbox the following: Link Gems. The gems included Chimamanda Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo, an essay about the relationship between Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Homer’s Odyssey. As someone who finds herself interested in the interplay of European classics and Black literature,…
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Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres – as I frequently approach history through literature. So it was with excitement that I opened Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. I knew next to nothing about the backdrop to the novel, the Biafra war. I definitely didn’t know that it was Igbo-based. However,…
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Well. Another year’s over and another one’s about to begin (or so they say). I’ve laid out my goals and objectives for 2011. This is not the place for the discussion of them but it is a place for discussion of my literary goals – or more precisely what will be on my reading list…
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I was all set to give Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez a half nod when I remembered a survey type of conversation I participated in a few years back. The questions we [a bunch of writers loosely connected through an online writing board] were asked was this: if we lived as slaves in America, what type…
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