Earth is Ours : Poems for Secondary Schools -- Paperback

Gordon, Ian

Macmillan Education（1994/04発売）

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Full Description

An anthology selected to present a wide variety of themes and subjects of interest to young people. The poems are intended to provide ideas for discussion, and analysis, and a starting point for students' own writing. The focus of each section is introduced and provides discussion ideas.

Contents

Part 1 The story insideroad before Shagamu, John Pepper Clark; food for the couple, Mafika Gwala; one for the road, Charles Mungoshi; ballad of the landlord, Langston Hughes; the other time, Peter Appleton; what has happened to Lulu, Charles Causley; Jonah and the whale, Gareth Owen; ballad of the bread man, Charles Causley. Part 2 Faces of love: my baby has no name yet, Kim Nam Jo; beloved of my mother, Okot p'Bitek; Isatou died, Lenrie Peters; mama and daughter, Langston Hughes; grandma at 90 o'clock, Eddison Zvogbo; love is, Mervyn Morris; serenade, Philippa Namutebi Barlow; two songs, Berber, Morocco; the mesh, Kwesi Brew; the eyes that wouldn't wander, Laban Erapu; like a flame, Grace Nichols; confession, Christopher van Wyk; the crack, Sheikha El-Miskery; mourning song, (three translations) H.A. Giles, Ezra Pound, et al; wedding eve, Everett Standa; a senryu sequence, traditional, Japan; new face, Alice Walker; letter from a contract worker, Antonion Jacinto. Part 3 Working days: work, D.H. Lawrence; the palm-wine tapper's song, Segun Sofowote; reapers in a mielefield, Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali; planting rice, Konishi Raizan; song of agony, Gouveia de Le mos; from islands, Edward Kamau Brathwaite; song of the wagondriver, B.S. Johnson; woman work, Maya Angelou; career woman, Charles Mungoshi; daydream, Jeanette Leboent Kassam; the woman I married, Edwin Waiyaki; hunting for a job, Elias Nyakunu. Part 4 The price of freedom: colonizer's logic, Chinweizu; Stanley meets Mutesa, David Rubadiri; the weaver bird, Kofi Awoonor; the making of a servant, J.J.R. Jolobe; there was an Indian, John Squire; still I rise, Maya Angelou; from prison letters, Musaemura Bonas Zimungya; touch, Hugh Lewin; from letters to Martha, Dennis Brutus; another day, Hugh Lewin; in detention, Christopher van Wyk; the newest bride, Henry Barlow; the laying of the stones, Daniel P. Kunene; a freedom song, Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. Part 5 Modern living: what's wrong with people?, Mongane Serote; once upon a time, Gabriel Okara; African dancing, Eric Mazani; the street, Jared Angira; neon, Amin Kassam; an abandoned bundle, Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali; lost friends, Lenrie Peters; justice is done, Oumar Ba; corruption, Freddy Macha; a prescription for development, Cecil Rajendra; from song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek; a pregnant schoolgirl, Everett Standa. Part 6 The natural world. Part 7 This is war. Part 8 Reflections. (Part contents).