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When the Wanderers Come Home
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
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Description for When the Wanderers Come Home
paperback. Series: African Poetry Book Series. Num Pages: 126 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 8. Weight in Grams: 195.
Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as “one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century,” Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain and inner turmoil of a homeland still reconciling itself in the aftermath of multiple wars and destruction.
Wesley, a native Liberian, calls on deeply rooted African motifs and proverbs, utilizing the poetics of both the West and Africa to convey her grief. Autobiographical in nature, the poems highlight the hardships of a ... Read more
Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as “one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century,” Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain and inner turmoil of a homeland still reconciling itself in the aftermath of multiple wars and destruction.
Wesley, a native Liberian, calls on deeply rooted African motifs and proverbs, utilizing the poetics of both the West and Africa to convey her grief. Autobiographical in nature, the poems highlight the hardships of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
Series
African Poetry Book Series
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803288577
SKU
V9780803288577
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About Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Pennsylvania State University–Altoona. She has four other books of poetry, including Where the Road Turns and Becoming Ebony, part of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry.
Reviews for When the Wanderers Come Home
“Wesley is a poet working to find language that can help show the fractures and fissures of a postwar nation and the personal realities of displacement and return. . . . [Wesley] uses the framing set by the generations before her to create poetry that not only speaks to her realities as a Liberian woman and survivor of the civil ... Read more