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Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman’s Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964). Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet’s earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria’s war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara’s work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa’s most revered poets.
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Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty narrative poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, and converses with her Afro-New Orleans forebears, both blood ancestors and spiritual predecessors, weaving in hypnotic cadence a spell as potent as the religious and magical mysteries of her native culture. In All Saints we come to believe the dead do live, in the slave bricks paving the city's faubourgs, in the Hoodoo rites and images of saints, and especially in ourselves, who ""walk upon the earth a living man / wearing all the shrouds of mourning like a skin / and memory like a stone inside your organs.""Assisted by a glossary of New Orleans ethnic expressions, place names, and characters, we discern in these poems a multitude of voices that speak to us from colonial times forward. We hear Juan San Malo, leader of a slave rebellion; Luis Congo, a free Kongo man; myriad brothers and sisters, both distinct and collective; and the city itself, ""thrumming / eternal / ever / at the tracks."" Chanting, lamenting, outpouring, healing, Osbey's poems measure her own musical refrain to the past while keeping time with the present: ""we cry out together / in time to hear their cries.
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All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of history, memory, and the indelible bonds between living and dead that has marked the output of Louisiana Poet Laureate Emerita Brenda Marie Osbey. Comprising poems written and published over the span of four decades, this thematic collection highlights the unity of Osbey's voice and narrative intent.The six sections of the book reveal the breadth of her poetic vision. The first, House in the Faubourg, contains poems focused on the people and places of Osbey's native New Orleans, and the penultimate section, Unfinished Coffees, examines the Crescent City within a broader, more contemporary meditation on culture. Something about Trains features two suites of poems that use trains and railway stations as settings from which to inspect desolation, writing, and memory; and Little History, Part One recounts tales of European settlement and exploitation of the New World. The poems in What Hunger look at the many facets of desire, while Mourning Like a Skin includes elegies and poems addressing the lasting presence of the dead.Dynamic and unflinching, the poems in All Souls speak of a world with many secrets, known ""only through having learned them / the hardest way.