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Parley Tree: Poets from French-Speaking Africa and the Arab World

Bekri Tahir Boni Tanella Dakeyo Paul
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781906570613
Publisert
2012-06-15
Utgiver
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ARC Publications
Vekt
505 gr
Høyde
156 mm
Bredde
134 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
220

Forfatter
Bekri Tahir
Boni Tanella
Dakeyo Paul

Biographical note

Patrick Williamson is an English poet who was born in Madrid in 1960 and lives near Paris. His most recent poetry collection is Three Rivers / Trois Rivieres (Editions Harmattan, Paris, 2010). He has translated, among others, selected poems of Tunisian poet Tahar Bekri and Quebecois poet Gilles Cyr, and edited Quarante et un poetes de la Grande-Bretagne (2003). In 1995 and 2003, he was an invited poet at the Festival International de Poesie at Trois-Rivieres in Quebec.

Parley Tree: Poets from French-Speaking Africa and the Arab World

Bekri Tahir Boni Tanella Dakeyo Paul
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
Bekri Tahir Boni Tanella Dakeyo Paul
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
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Poetry is one of the major forms of expression in both Africa and the Arab World, and this anthology gives a glimpse of the most representative voices of the French-speaking countries of these two regions. The past half-century has confirmed their work as poetry of great literary quality, full of a unique vitality and presence.The Traveller's Tree presents poems from Algeria (Mohammed Dib, Habib Tengour); Cameroon (Paul Dakeyo); Chad (Nimrod); Congo Brazzaville (Alain Mabanckou, Tchicaya U Tam Si); Democratic Republic of Congo (Kama Kamanda); Djibouti (A. Waberi); Ivory Coast (Tanella Boni); Lebanon (Venus Khoury-Ghata); Mauritius (Edouard Maunick, Khal Torabully); Morocco (Abdellatif Laâbi); Senegal (Babacar Sall, Lamine Sall) and Tunisia (Tahar Bekri, Chems Nadir, A Said).Patrick Williamson is an English poet, born in Madrid in 1960. His most recent poetry collection is Three Rivers / Trois Rivières (Harmattan, 2010). He has translated, among others, selected works by Tunisian poet Tahar Bekri and Québécois poet Gilles Cyr. He now lives near Paris.
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The poets anthologized here - from North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and the Arab World - have long wished to escape from artificial pigeon-holing and rather to be associated with common threads. The past half-century has confirmed their work as poetry of great literary quality, full of a unique vitality and presence.
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Preface / 9 Introduction / 11 (ALGERIA) MOHAMMED DIB: Migrant / 21, The beast / 21, More than ever alive / 23, Thing / 23, River / 25 (ALGERIA) HABIB TENGOUR: Four times azure and five / 29, The water's edge / 29, The poem / 31 (CAMEROON) PAUL DAKEYO: Soweto, suns shot down (extracts) / 37, The song of silence (extracts) / 41 (CHAD) NIMROD: The cry of the bird / 55, Tibesti (extracts) / 55, Yet the Infanta of Salamanca - (extracts) / 57 (CONGO BRAZAVILLE) ALAIN MABANCKOU: When the cock announces the dawn of another day (extracts) / 67 (CONGO BRAZAVILLE) TCHICAYA U TAM'DI: Summary of a passion / 77 (extracts) (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) KAMA SYWOR KAMANDA: In the silence of hearts / 85, The song of resistance / 85, The song of destiny / 87, Haunted houses / 89, The beating of the drums / 91 (DJIBOUTI) ABDOURAHMAN A. WABERI: Desires / 97, Truce / 97,Engravings / 97, Nomadic miniatures / 101, Untitled / 103, Tales of yesterday / 105 (IVORY COAST)TANELLA BONI: The gift still to come (four poems) / 111, Goree baobab island (four poems) / 113 (LEBANON) VENUS KHOURY-GHATA: The shades (extracts) / 121 (MAURITIUS) EDOUARD MAUNICK: I once was a tree / 131 (MAURITIUS) KHAL TORABULLY: Cantata for the child from Cana (extract) / 139, Les Indiades, Odes to Pessoa (extract) / 139, Dark light cast on Aapravisi Ghat (extract) / 141, Hold full of stars, Coolitude (extracts) / 143, Dialogue of water and salt (extracts) / 145, The red shadow of gazelles (extract) / 147 (MOROCCO) ABDELLATIF LAABI: Small clean slate (extracts) / 153, Shoulders and the burden (extracts) / 155 (SENEGAL) BABACAR SALL: Bed of sand (extracts) / 165 (SENEGAL)AMADOU LAMINE SALL: My country is not a dead country / 175 (TUNISIA) TAHAR BEKRI: Afghanistan / 183, Shade / 187, Dream at Trieste / 187, The Fisherman of Moons / 189 (TUNISIA) SHAMS NADIR: The other Sindbad (extracts) / 197, Echoes of Isla Negra / 203 (TUNISIA) AMINA SAID: "each day the sun... " / 207, "the mothers sleep..." / 209, "from our birth place..." / 213 About the translators / 217
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Poetry is one of the major forms of expression in both Africa and the Arab World, and this anthology gives a glimpse of the most representative voices of the French-speaking countries of these two regions. The past half-century has confirmed their work as poetry of great literary quality, full of a unique vitality and presence.The Traveller's Tree presents poems from Algeria (Mohammed Dib, Habib Tengour); Cameroon (Paul Dakeyo); Chad (Nimrod); Congo Brazzaville (Alain Mabanckou, Tchicaya U Tam Si); Democratic Republic of Congo (Kama Kamanda); Djibouti (A. Waberi); Ivory Coast (Tanella Boni); Lebanon (Venus Khoury-Ghata); Mauritius (Edouard Maunick, Khal Torabully); Morocco (Abdellatif Laâbi); Senegal (Babacar Sall, Lamine Sall) and Tunisia (Tahar Bekri, Chems Nadir, A Said).Patrick Williamson is an English poet, born in Madrid in 1960. His most recent poetry collection is Three Rivers / Trois Rivières (Harmattan, 2010). He has translated, among others, selected works by Tunisian poet Tahar Bekri and Québécois poet Gilles Cyr. He now lives near Paris.
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The poets anthologized here - from North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and the Arab World - have long wished to escape from artificial pigeon-holing and rather to be associated with common threads. The past half-century has confirmed their work as poetry of great literary quality, full of a unique vitality and presence.
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Preface / 9 Introduction / 11 (ALGERIA) MOHAMMED DIB: Migrant / 21, The beast / 21, More than ever alive / 23, Thing / 23, River / 25 (ALGERIA) HABIB TENGOUR: Four times azure and five / 29, The water's edge / 29, The poem / 31 (CAMEROON) PAUL DAKEYO: Soweto, suns shot down (extracts) / 37, The song of silence (extracts) / 41 (CHAD) NIMROD: The cry of the bird / 55, Tibesti (extracts) / 55, Yet the Infanta of Salamanca - (extracts) / 57 (CONGO BRAZAVILLE) ALAIN MABANCKOU: When the cock announces the dawn of another day (extracts) / 67 (CONGO BRAZAVILLE) TCHICAYA U TAM'DI: Summary of a passion / 77 (extracts) (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) KAMA SYWOR KAMANDA: In the silence of hearts / 85, The song of resistance / 85, The song of destiny / 87, Haunted houses / 89, The beating of the drums / 91 (DJIBOUTI) ABDOURAHMAN A. WABERI: Desires / 97, Truce / 97,Engravings / 97, Nomadic miniatures / 101, Untitled / 103, Tales of yesterday / 105 (IVORY COAST)TANELLA BONI: The gift still to come (four poems) / 111, Goree baobab island (four poems) / 113 (LEBANON) VENUS KHOURY-GHATA: The shades (extracts) / 121 (MAURITIUS) EDOUARD MAUNICK: I once was a tree / 131 (MAURITIUS) KHAL TORABULLY: Cantata for the child from Cana (extract) / 139, Les Indiades, Odes to Pessoa (extract) / 139, Dark light cast on Aapravisi Ghat (extract) / 141, Hold full of stars, Coolitude (extracts) / 143, Dialogue of water and salt (extracts) / 145, The red shadow of gazelles (extract) / 147 (MOROCCO) ABDELLATIF LAABI: Small clean slate (extracts) / 153, Shoulders and the burden (extracts) / 155 (SENEGAL) BABACAR SALL: Bed of sand (extracts) / 165 (SENEGAL)AMADOU LAMINE SALL: My country is not a dead country / 175 (TUNISIA) TAHAR BEKRI: Afghanistan / 183, Shade / 187, Dream at Trieste / 187, The Fisherman of Moons / 189 (TUNISIA) SHAMS NADIR: The other Sindbad (extracts) / 197, Echoes of Isla Negra / 203 (TUNISIA) AMINA SAID: "each day the sun... " / 207, "the mothers sleep..." / 209, "from our birth place..." / 213 About the translators / 217
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781906570613
Publisert
2012-06-15
Utgiver
Vendor
ARC Publications
Vekt
505 gr
Høyde
156 mm
Bredde
134 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
220

Forfatter
Bekri Tahir
Boni Tanella
Dakeyo Paul

Biographical note

Patrick Williamson is an English poet who was born in Madrid in 1960 and lives near Paris. His most recent poetry collection is Three Rivers / Trois Rivieres (Editions Harmattan, Paris, 2010). He has translated, among others, selected poems of Tunisian poet Tahar Bekri and Quebecois poet Gilles Cyr, and edited Quarante et un poetes de la Grande-Bretagne (2003). In 1995 and 2003, he was an invited poet at the Festival International de Poesie at Trois-Rivieres in Quebec.

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