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- Toil and Delivery
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
Bill NDI�s Toil and Delivery can be as playful and loaded as the clues in a cryptic crossword puzzle, which is to say that they are marked by a strange, energetic hybridity. They occupy a dynamic space between nursery rhyme and visionary Romantic verse, between the colloquial and the archaic, between postmodernity and anachronism. They are local and global, political and personal, Western and non-Western. With experiences traversing both Africa and the West, Bill F. NDI is one of those poets who gives meaning to the word globalisation. He embraces poetry as a material act in a troubled world, with poetry�s power conveyed with typical irony.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Content
- pp. iii-vi
- Author’s notes
- pp. vii-viii
- SANDER & CHRISTER
- pp. 2-3
- TIME (6758576)
- p. 6
- SPECTACLES
- p. 7
- THE BROKEN BOND
- p. 8
- WHAT DOES IT MATTER?
- pp. 9-11
- STRONG, STRONG WEAK
- p. 12
- FRUITS OF BLISS
- p. 14
- BORN FREE FREEBORN
- p. 18
- BOXING RING
- pp. 19-20
- COMMEMORATION
- pp. 22-24
- OUR AWE OBJECTS
- p. 25
- THE MESSENGER
- p. 28
- BITCH SONG
- pp. 30-31
- THE VOICE OF A RESTING SOUL
- pp. 34-36
- THE WAY TO GO
- p. 37
- CAPTAIN SALUTES ALL
- p. 38
- THE UNSEEN
- p. 39
- IN SEARCH FOR IT
- p. 40
- COMING OF ASH
- p. 41
- THE RETURN HOME
- p. 43
- FOR BETTER & ….
- p. 44
- BROOMSTICK
- p. 45
- THE MADMAN SAID:
- p. 46
- COUNCILORS: NONFORM
- p. 48
- BARREN DAYS
- p. 58
- SEA FARING
- p. 59
- THE CALLER
- p. 64
- IRREVOCABLE VOICE
- p. 65
- TABLETS OF LIFE
- p. 66
- FOR SURVIVAL
- p. 67
- FIRST AND LAST SPACE
- p. 71
- EGG DESTRUCTION
- p. 72
- ON HER NATIVITY
- p. 73
- CHASTISEMENT
- p. 74
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- p. 78
- BECOMING A WAIF
- pp. 79-82
- THE BLIGHT
- p. 89
- DEMISE’S RESIDENCE
- p. 92
- MINERVA’S GRAVE
- pp. 93-94
- PROSELYTIST
- pp. 95-96
- SEVEN OVER ALL
- p. 99
- HEART BEATS
- p. 103
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956579259
Related ISBN(s)
9789956578184
MARC Record
OCLC
715154262
Pages
118
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No