My Brother, My SisterThe 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. |
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Contents
Part II | 41 |
War Dogs | 43 |
Poets Last Words | 44 |
Outside The Purse | 45 |
Judge Himself | 46 |
Skin and Heart | 47 |
Shame Game
| 48 |
War Pleasure Childs Revulsion | 50 |
Naming the Culprit | 64 |
This Duet
| 65 |
Gimmicks King Commander | 66 |
Inch by Inch | 67 |
One of 5 That Beat 187 | 69 |
Litany of Lamentations | 71 |
Really Odd | 73 |
Feeding the Baobab Tree | 74 |
Money Slave | 51 |
Sinuous Curves
| 52 |
Dues for Dews | 53 |
The Longing | 54 |
His Victory | 55 |
Tulip Tree Leaves | 56 |
Peace Warring War | 57 |
Seeds of Peace | 59 |
Peace Warriors | 61 |
The Entrails of Thoughts | 62 |
Our Leaders Our drums | 63 |
Flower Pot Music | 76 |
We Shant Perch | 77 |
Peaceful Lake of Peace | 79 |
On The Stage | 80 |
True Mother | 81 |
Our Big Heads | 82 |
Peace Warriors | 83 |
Love Sake | 84 |
Back cover
| 87 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | My Brother, My Sister My Brother, My Sister, Bill F. Ndi |
| Authors | Loretta Burns, Bill F. Ndi |
| Publisher | African Books Collective, 2012 |
| ISBN | 9956727261, 9789956727261 |
| Length | 96 pages |
| Subjects | › Poetry / African |
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