Foreword: Poetry as enchantement by Femi Osofisan -- MOVEMENT ONE: Homage. Ancestral Saga II -- Ancestral Roll-Call -- Gathering the Harvest Dance -- Portrait I -- Portrait II -- Atigbon Legba -- The Place we Call Home -- MOVEMENT TWO: CountDown to GroundZero. Desert Storm -- Nine-Eleven -- Hero -- The Generalʹs Battle Plan -- Baghdad -- The CapitolGang -- FireStorm -- Killed by Friendly Fire -- But Oh The Glory -- MOVEMENT THREE: QuietTime. Waiting in Shadows -- Lament of the Eagle -- Gifty: The Girl Died -- A Song for Fo Willie -- Daavi -- Africalia Encounters -- En Route San Salvador -- Among dreams -- kampala -- Millennium Call -- Voices -- Termites -- Just Fine -- Dance of The Elephant -- The Return -- Happiness -- Post-Retirement Blues -- But Ah! The Glory!
Summary:
Renowned Ghanaian poet Kofi Anyidoho's latest collection is both a lamentation and a celebration, documenting epic events in world history ranging from the abolition of slavery to the tragedy of September 11, 2001. Anyidoho tells us that the title of the work came to him more than a decade ago as a collage of voices and memories that he carried with him on his many travels, knowing that there was one place that he could claim as his own, a place of emotional anchor in a haunted, turbulent world.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
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