Blind Moon

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Weaver Press, 2003 - Poetry - 60 pages

A collection of evocative and defiant poetry from one of Zimbabwe's leading literary and political writers. The poems reflect on the plight of the individual citizen and the state of Zimbabwe, the poet's birthplace and spiritual home. They convey empathy for those who suffer anonymous deaths at the expense of tyrannical power, and yearning for a more peaceful world and spirit of common destiny; their intention being in his words' to persuade the heart and the soul and human body to be together and to gently cry out to the world'.

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Contents

birds
3
travel
11
in rambouillet france
17
Copyright

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Blind Moon
Chenjerai Hove
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birds blind moon blood breath broken bullets butterfly charles Chenjerai Hove children's clouds colour conscience corpses dark dead death destiny dreams earth echoes endless europe eyes face fall father floating floating flowers flying freedom french front gave gentle girl give graffiti graves hands hear heart hill house of power human includes inside kiss land landscape leaf lecture left a trail listen live mandela meet memory MICHIGAN mist monkey monsieur generale mothers never onion pain peace peeping piece plant plays poet poetry speaks power you left praise rain raindrop refused remains remember secret shadow shape share silent sing skulls slice smells smiles soil sometimes songs soul space stars story stream sunk tears tell tomorrow took touch tree UNIVERSITY village voice watching waters wielding wind wings wish woman write young Zimbabwe

About the author (2003)

Chenjerai Hove was born on February 9, 1956 in Mazvihwas near Zvishavane, Rhodesia. He attended school at Kutama College and Marist Brothers Dete, in the Hwange district of Zimbabwe. After studying in Gweru, he became a teacher and then earned degrees at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe. He also worked as a journalist, and contributed to the anthology, And Now the Poets Speak. He became a well known poet, and novelist writing in both English and Shona. His titles include: Up in Arms, Red Hills of Home, Bones, Blind Moon and The Keys of Ramb. She also won several awards including Guest Writer, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts, Second Prize, Zimbabwe Literary Award, for Ancestors, and International Writers Project Fellow at Brown University. Chenjerai Hove died on July 12, 2015 of liver failure in Norway.

Bibliographic information

TitleBlind Moon
AuthorChenjerai Hove
Editionillustrated
PublisherWeaver Press, 2003
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMay 30, 2008
ISBN1779220197, 9781779220196
Length60 pages
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Poetry / African
Poetry / General
  
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