Before the Palm Could Bloom
Author | : Patricia Jabbeh Wesley |
Publisher | : New Issues Poetry and Prose |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105110654659 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Before the Palm Could Bloom written by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African Studies. In BEFORE THE PALM COULD BLOOM, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought. And In poems ofvillage life and customs, the city life of Monrovia, the rites of childhoodand adolescence, Wesley records for the reader a world that has been foreverchanged. Wesley's poems incorporate many African voices, and range in tonefrom sorrow and longing, to humor and ironic wit.