Loretta Burns, Bill F Ndi

Broschiertes Buch

My Brother, My Sister

Beschreibung

The fiery passion and epigrammatic terseness with which Loretta Burns re-enacts her experiences and observations as an African American woman in contemporary America reveal her as a poet of life who transcends the labels African American, feminist, and/or womanist. Her poetry captures moments and scenes of living that echo her impressions and intuitions of a world trapped between appearance and reality, illusion and disillusion, expectation and realization, the material and the spiritual. Through her deceptive simplicity of diction, she explores the nooks and crannies of her psyche as well as her society's. It is a poetry written from the depths of the heart that calls attention to the mystery and sacredness of the everyday. It therefore comes as no surprise that Loretta Burns and Bill F. Ndi, the Cameroonian-born poet with a fierce drive for global peace and the oneness of humanity, should collaborate on a collection of poems. With vibrancy and a sense of urgency, their lines evoke humanity's perpetual struggle for freedom and its search for meaning.

Autor

Loretta Burns is a professor emerita of English and a former department chair at Tuskegee University. An Alabama native, she received her bachelor's degree from Tuskegee, her M.A. from Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has also studied at Columbia University and the Sorbonne and conducted research at Harvard and Yale Universities. She has held faculty positions at Fisk University, the University of Florida, and Washington University in St. Louis. She retired from Tuskegee University in 2016 after four decades of distinguished leadership and service.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: African Books Collective
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9789956727261
• ISBN-10: 9956727261
• Artikelnr.: 35683960