Tisa: New-Generation African Poets

Name: Tisa: New-Generation African Poets
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781636140766
Price: 70.99 NZD
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A Chapbook Box Set

By Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes

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Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, curated by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes, is a vibrant anthology showcasing the voices of contemporary African poets. Through evocative language and compelling themes, the collection captures the diverse experiences and cultures across the continent, offering readers both profound insights and fresh perspectives on modern African literature.
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This book may appeal to you if you are fascinated by the vibrant, evolving landscape of African poetry and the diverse voices shaping its contemporary narrative. Exploring themes deeply rooted in culture and identity, it offers a compelling glimpse into the soulful creativity and innovative spirit of a new generation of poets. Whether you're a lover of lyricism or a seeker of fresh perspectives within the science and nature of human experience, this collection promises a thought-provoking journey.

This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets.

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Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets. -New York Times Magazine

The limited-edition box set is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets working today, and it is especially interested in featuring poets who have not yet published their first full-length book of poetry.

The eleven poets included in this box set are: Samuel A. Adeyemi, Nikitta Dede Adjirakor, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, Rabha Ashry, Jakky Bankong-Obi, Hazem Fahmy, Alain Jules Hirwa, Jay Kophy, Tawiah Naana Akua Mensah, Phodiso Modirwa, and Nneoma Veronica Nwogu.

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Tisa: New-Generation African Poets is praised as an ambitious and vital project that fulfils its promise by dispelling stereotypes about African writing. The chapbooks showcase diverse expressions, providing poignant insights into the ways poets redefine their connections to Africa, especially relevant in contemporary contexts of migration and diaspora.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781636140766

Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Akashic Books,U.S.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 16.0mm

Height: 24.0mm

Weight: 510g

Pages: 300

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About the Author

Kwame Dawes is the Ghana-born, award-winning author of twenty-one books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. He has won Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2019 awardee of the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Chris Abani, a Nigerian-born, award-winning poet and novelist, currently teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is the recipient of a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, a Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond Margins Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim Award.