Healing Stings

Pepertua K. Nkamanyang Lola

Description

Healing Stings is an astonishing collection of poems that depict a society battling social, global and postcolonial challenges. Through a combination of terse and elegantly composed verse, this collection provides viable tools with which to overcome the hassles and possibly check the erosion of time-honoured moral values.

Sujets

• Women
• Poetry
• Gender Studies
• Gender
• Environment
• LITERATURE
• Woman
• Cameroon
• The Women
• Poésie

Informations

• Publié par: Jude
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781942876144
• Langue: English

Extrait

Healing Stings

Healing Stings

Collected Poems

Pepertua K. Nkamanyang Lola

B y t H e S a m e A u t H o r

The Lock on My Lips (A Play),Langaa Research and Publishing CIG (Winner of the 2015 EKO Price Award for Emerging Anglophone Writers, Drama Category)

Rustles on Naked Trees ( A Novel), L’ Harmattan (2015)

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IsbN: 978-1-942876-14-4 (PàpéRàck)

For My beloved husband and soul mate, Achiri Clement Nkamanyang, for his love, concern and exceptional character; & Those who believe that unity in diversity is a rich recipe for peace and security, and a stronger oxygen for the nation’s develoPMent.

Contents

Philosophical Musings Prologue I Until the Roaring Tides of Extinction of Standards Abate Prologue II The Eggs of Verse Acknowledgement

Poems on Gender Domestic Luminaries I (For Mary) The Birth of Voice Domestic Luminaries II Section Me Up: The Colony Within The Language of Breasts and Beards Mushrooming Mushrooms March 8 War with Words The Journey No Longer on Stage Poems on Social Ills, Ethics and Religious Morality Judgement Day The Most Sumptuous Dangerous Meal I The Most Sumptuous Dangerous Meal II At The Tribunal of Ethics and Conscience Vaccinate the Judiciary Vaccinate the Continent The Stage Bleeding the Heart of Africa Dry The Diseased Stricken Road Ancestral Dynasty

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x Frenzy or Fashion? 61 Nature and Environmental Poems 63 Roars and Swooshes of Menchum Falls 64 Garments of Nature and Clothes of Trees 72 Roasting Air and Raiding Winds of Filthy Estate 73 National Integration, Patriotism, Peace Building, Democrat- ic Practice, Political and Historical Poems 77 Religious Democracy 78 The Birth of the Great Triangle 79 The Raging 90s 80 The Plaited-Ropes 82 Grafted Fruits and Borrowed Feathers 86 The Report Card of Democracy 88 Social Clinic 89 Vaccine against Violence 92 The Wedding 93 Defend the Flag 97 Cameroon 100 Healing Herbs105 Tolerance 107 Social Menu 108 The Broom 110 ReLections on the Social Role of Writers 113 Where the Pen Rules 114 Where the Pen Heals 116 The Weight of Words 119 Others 121 For Kongnyuy Jean Claude 122 Patching up our Treasured-Shredding Roof 124 About the Author 127