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PraiseSong for TheLand
Kofi Anyidoho
其他書名
Poems of Hope & Love & Care
出版Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002
主題Poetry / GeneralPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPoetry / African
ISBN99885504569789988550455
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5yVaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋I want to sing a Praise Song/for The Land/I must Sing a Praise Song/for Our People.' - thus sounds Anyidoho's statement of poetic intent. Anyidoho draws on Ewe verbal art as a critical source of the culture and philosophical expression of an African community to produce this collection of poetry and song, his first in almost a decade. Published in both print and CD-ROM format, Anyidoho presents his words in printed and spoken form in the firm belief that 'the poetry of print is the domain of the eyewitness, the poetry of sound, the domain of the earwitness...the dominant poetic world of Africa....' It follows that the printed word, 'can no longer carry the full burden of my voice', at least, 'to all the people I call my people'. Kofi Anyidoho is a poet, research scholar of African literature, and a lecturer in English at the University of Ghana. Kofi Awoonor writes a critical introduction describing his poetry as 'the ultimate homage the poet pays to the intimate and elemental force of voice, the first instrument of poetry'.