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31 produkter
Best African American Essays 2010
Av Dorothy Sterling, Chris Abani m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
241 kr
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Secret History of Las Vegas
A Novel
Av Chris Abani
E-bok, 2014
90 kr
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A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container …
Kalakuta Republic
Av Chris Abani
E-bok, 2015
106 kr
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This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria''s military regime in the late 1980s.Abani vividly describes the characters that peopled this dark world, from prison inmates such as John James, tortured to …
Virgin of Flames
Av Chris Abani
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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For Black, a mural artist in East L.A., the city's tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above 'The Ugly Store', he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, the transvestite stripper who serves as his muse. Black navigates life alongside the Los Angeles …
Hands Washing Water
Av Chris Abani
Häftad, 2006
250 kr
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“Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength.”— Pride Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani's fourth poetry collection—a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, “Buffalo Women,” is a …
Sanctificum
Av Chris Abani
Häftad, 2010
257 kr
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“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” — Library Journal “Stunning poems.” — New Humanist A self-described “zealot of optimism,” poet and novelist Chris …
Smoking the Bible
Av Chris Abani
Häftad, 2022
184 kr
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An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible. Smoking the Bible is an arresting collection of poems thick …
Ravenous Audience
Poems
E-bok, 2009
213 kr
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"Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal tour de force."--Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Half of the World in Light"Durbin's debut volume sizzles...Throughout this deeply …
Saba: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Inbunden, 2020
700 kr
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Hands Washing Water
Av Chris Abani
E-bok, 2012
153 kr
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“Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength.”— Pride Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani''s fourth poetry collection—a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, “Buffalo Women,” is a …
Sanctificum
Av Chris Abani
E-bok, 2013
153 kr
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“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” — Library Journal “Stunning poems.” — New Humanist A self-described “zealot of optimism,” poet and novelist Chris …
Smoking the Bible
Av Chris Abani
E-bok, 2022
198 kr
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An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible. Smoking the Bible is an arresting collection of poems thick …
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Inbunden, 2021
714 kr
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Kumi Na Moja
New-Generation African Poets A Chapbook Box Set
Av Kwame Dawes, Kwame Dawes m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
434 kr
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THE LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets …
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook
Av Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
203 kr
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TOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes's and Chris Abani's introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations that celebrate the work of emerging African poets and build - meticulously and with principled care - a …
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series (Library Edition)
Av Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
502 kr
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Daphne’s Lot
Av Chris Abani
Häftad, 2003
204 kr
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"The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman—the power of her ties to family, husband and her 'adopted' country, Nigeria—as well as the illumination of her own soul and that of the …
Lagos Noir
Häftad, 2018
157 kr
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An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos.Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigeria's best loved writers. From the introduction by Chris Abani: The thirteen stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of …
Becoming Abigail
A Novella
Av Chris Abani
E-bok, 2006
213 kr
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"Compelling and gorgeously written, this is a coming-of-age novella like no other. Chris Abani explores the depths of loss and exploitation with what can only be described as a knowing tenderness. An extraordinary, necessary book."Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban"Abani's voice brings …
Lesser Tragedy of Death
Av Cristina García, Chris Abani
E-bok, 2010
246 kr
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"[A] brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray; with skill, unflinching honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina García tracks his marvelous, complex, and errant life. . . . These poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother …
Graceland
Av Chris Abani
Pocket, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
89 kr
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Graceland är Chris Abanis genombrottsroman. En häpnadsväckande berättelse om 16-årige Elvis Oke som lever med sin alkoholiserade far i ett slumområde i jättestaden Lagos, Nigeria. Elvis drömmer om ett liv i frihet, utanför slummen och bortom faderns kontroll. Han försöker försörja sig som …
There Are No Names for Red
Av CHRIS ABANI
Häftad, 2010
184 kr
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There Are No Names for Red is a collaborative work featuring the poetry of Chris Abani and the paintings of Percival Everett.
Face: Cartography Of The Void
Av Chris Abani
Häftad, 2016
135 kr
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"A fascinating meditation on identity that explores the novelist's own mixed heritage and mixed feelings....A true citizen of the world....With great insight and compassion, Abani reveals that behind his-and every-face are unseen scars." -San Francisco ChronicleIn The Face: Cartography of the Void, …
Dog Woman
Av Chris Abani
Häftad, 2004
154 kr
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Chris Abani's Dog Woman is a mesmerizing, haunting, and sometimes subversive exploration of the personal and cultural politics of disempowerment and power. In these heart rousing and lyrically complex poems, the poet enacts the reconstruction of his feminized selves, and his personae struggle to …
