Yoruba Poetry (22 results)

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Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 248 | Produktart: Bücher.

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Condition: Good. Wenger, Susanne (illustrator). Good+; Hardcover, Missing Jacket; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Light wear to the covers; Library stamps to the endpapers; Text pages are clean & unmarked; Binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Dark orange cloth covers with title in gold lettering along the spine; 1970, Cambridge University Press; 126 pages; "Yoruba Poetry: An Anthology of Traditional Poems," by Ulli Beier & Susanne Wenger.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. Wenger, Susanne (illustrator). First Edition. Clean and unmarked.

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Susanne Wenger. Bookplate of historian, author, and African scholar Prosser Gifford on the half-title. Faint foxing on the pastedowns and a bit of faintest staining on the foredge not affecting the interior, near fine in a price-clipped near very good dust jacket with some tanning and soil on the rear panel, and a very light dampstain along the length of the lower flap fold. An imperfect but still quite presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition of this scarce anthology of Yoruba poetry. A special publication of the legendary Nigerian literary journal Black Orpheus, collecting traditional Yoruba poems in English translation, including poems for children, alongside silkscreens by Wenger, whose linocuts defined the aesthetic of Black Orpheus. 68 pp. Bound in publisher's silkscreened wraps, illustrated with seven tipped-in silkscreen prints (eight total including front wrapper) and ten vignettes by Wenger. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear. Pencil marking at top edges of front and rear covers. A lovely copy published as a special publication of Black Orpheus, the first African literary journal in English. The work is organized into four genres: oriki (praise), odu (oracle), ijala (hunters), and iwi (masqueraders) juxtaposed by highly contrasted Modernist depictions of Yoruba myth by Beier's first wife, Susanne Wegner. The translation of the poems into English was a collaboration between the Jewish German linguist and scholar Ulli Beier and the Yoruba poet Bakare Gbadamosi. In the preface of this work Beier relays the difficulties of translating African poetry into conventional English verse, ". the false impression is that sometimes created that African literature consists of nothing but tales about tortoise and spider. In reality poetry is is more common in African life than prose. The reason why comparatively few translations of traditional poetry exist is that many Africans argue that their poetry cannot be rendered in any European language." Scarcer than most issues of Black Orpheus.

A rare anthology of Yoruba poetry, published as a special issue of the Nigerian literary magazine Black Orpheus. "An excellent survey of Yoruba literary types" (Farris-Thompson, p. 267), the work organizes Yoruba poetry by subject matter into four key genres: oriki (praise), odu (oracle), ijala (hunters), and iwi (masqueraders), alongside marriage and funeral songs, poetry for children, and proverbs. The translation of the poems into English was a collaboration between the German linguist Ulli Beier (1922-2011) and the Yoruba poet Bakare Gbadamosi (b. 1930). In 1957, Beier founded Black Orpheus, which published early writing by Wole Soyinka and Cyprian Ekwensi, among others, and which is now recognized as "the doyen of African literary magazines" (Wollaeger & Eatough, p. 280). The striking illustrations, which recreate scenes of Yoruba myths, are by Beier's wife Susanne Wenger (1915-2009), an Austrian-born artist who, at the time of publication, had been "living for eight years in a Yoruba village, where she has been honoured with a religious title by the priests of the Obatala cult" (p. 64). She founded the New Sacred Art Movement in Osogbo in the early 1960s, which restored shrines to the Yoruba gods in the Sacred Grove, a divine forest along the banks of the river Osun. She remained in Nigeria until her death in 2009. Robert Farris-Thompson, "Yoruba Artistic Criticism" in Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins, eds, The Anthropology of Art: A Reader, 2006; Kimberli Gant and Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, 2022; Mark Wollaeger and Matt Eatough, The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, 2012. Folio. With 8 silkscreen prints tipped in, and 10 vignette illustrations to the text, all by Susanne Wenger. Original blue wrappers, printed in black and white, designed by Susanne Wenger. Spine fold lightly rubbed, small spot of browning to head of front wrapper, else bright, light foxing to edges. A very good copy.