The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964–2013 (African Poetry Book) - Softcover

Awoonor, Kofi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803249896 ISBN 13: 9780803249899

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2014

Synopsis

Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana’s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited collection of some of Awoonor’s most arresting work spanning almost fifty years.

 

Selected and edited by Awoonor’s friend and colleague Kofi Anyidoho, himself a prominent poet and academic in Ghana, The Promise of Hope contains much of Awoonor’s most recent unpublished poetry, along with many of his anthologized and classic poems. This engaging volume serves as a fitting contribution to the inaugural cohort of books in the African Poetry Book Series.

 

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About the Author

Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013) was a diplomat and a professor of comparative literature at numerous universities, including the University of Ghana. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Night of My Blood; Ride Me, Memory; The House by the Sea; and The Latin American and Caribbean Notebook. His collected poems (through 1985) were published in Until the Morning After. Kofi Anyidoho, a poet and scholar, serves on editorial boards for several journals and has been a guest editor of Matatu, a journal of African culture and society that is published in Amsterdam.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803249896
• ISBN 13: 9780803249899
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Anyidoho Kofi