The Parley Tree: Poets from French-Speaking Africa and the Arab World: An Anthology of Poets from French-Speaking Africa and the Arab World - Softcover

Bekri, Tahir; Boni, Tanella; Dakeyo, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906570612 ISBN 13: 9781906570613

Verlag: Arc Publications, 2012

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Críticas:

"Does anyone know the extent to which culture, place, the moment, the quirks of personhood are crucial in the making of poems? Or the question might be, what is to be understood from books location-based? The Parley Tree has both location and diversity and I despair of trying to convey what's here from Algeria, Cameroon, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Mauritius, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia. [...] Quoting from one poem, or from however many, would not begin to show what the book holds"
- David Hart, Stride Magazine<>/i

"..their poems seem as much committed to meaning as to being. Their interest is not simply local in quality or character, something to be defined in terms of an Arab or African otherness." --D.M. de Silva, Poetry Salzburg Review

Reseña del editor:

Poetry is one of the major forms of literary expression in both Africa and the Arab World and this anthology endeavours to provide the reader with a glimpse of the most representative voices of the poetic movements, and generations, in the French-speaking countries of these two regions, at the same time as doing away with the divisions and distinctions between the countries of Africa. 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, and this anthology enables an English-speaking readership to discover and savour these distinctive voices

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• Verlag: Arc Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1906570612
• ISBN 13: 9781906570613
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220