Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Broschiertes Buch

Breaking the Silence

Anthology of Liberian Poetry

Herausgeber: Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh

Beschreibung

Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence.

Autor

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a professor of English, creative writing, and African literature at Pennsylvania State University–Altoona. She immigrated to the United States with her husband and children in 1991, during the Liberian civil war. Wesley is the winner of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation and is the author of six collections of poetry, including Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 2023 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize; Becoming Ebony, a 2002 Crab Orchard Award winner; and When the Wanderers Come Home (Nebraska, 2016). She is a founder of Young Scholars of Liberia.

Produktdetails

• African Poetry Book
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 149mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781496233066
• ISBN-10: 1496233069
• Artikelnr.: 64698998