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SeedTime: Selected Poems I

SeedTime: Selected Poems I

Anyidoho, Kofi

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 9988902239
ISBN13: 9789988902230
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Mar 22 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In memory of all the Ancestral Voices who prepared the field for our SeedTime...

SeedTime I brings together Selected Poems from Kofi Anyidoho's first five collections, beginning in reverse order with poems from AncestralLogic & CaribbeanBlues (1993), A Harvest of Our Dreams (1984), EarthChild (1985), Elegy for the Revolution (1978), and BrainSurgery (1985). BrainSurgery, the earliest of these collections, was never published as a collection until it came out together with EarthChild (Woeli Publishing Services, 1985), even though several of the poems had appeared in various journals, magazines and anthologies.

SeedTime: Selected Poems I is a backward glance to those magical years of birth waters flowing across a landscape filled at once with danger and hope, with dying and rebirth in the mystery and miracle of new beginnings so soon after countless brushfires. But the doubt returns again so close behind the hope as we offer trembling prayers in new poems from an old loom: See What They've Done To Our SunRise. Yet, somehow, we must open our minds and souls to the Forever Promise of New SeedTimes. This world cannot, must not crumble under our watch.

Quintessential Anyidoho...a harvest of the master craftman's gems across time and space. SeedTime brings a refreshing newness to old songs, and, for new ones, a touch of creative genius we have come to associate with the poet's pedigree; a timeless legacy of a poet-laureate, whose voice waxes even stronger in his twilight years. - Mawuli Adjei, author, poet and literary scholar

A collection of haunting poems in which we SEE the turbulent variety of our history, and HEAR the English language teased to express the many rhythms of the African's eternal homesickness. - Prof. A. N. Mensah, Department of English, University of Ghana

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