The River Is Rising
Published on 15. August 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-1-950413-59-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and her family fled their native country after suffering tremendous privations and violence during the bloody Liberian Civil War at the end of the 20th Century. These poems are more than the story of one woman who carried her children over dead bodies in the street where she lived, who fled bombs and constant gunfire, who was locked with her daughters in an internment camp, where she witnessed every kind of crime against women. Wesley did more than survive. She helped other women. She wrote. (from the Introduction by poet and editor Pamela Uschuk)"--
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-950413-59-1 (9781950413591)
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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, including, Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems; When the Wanderers Come Home; Where the Road Turns; and Becoming Ebony. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Transition, New York Times Magazine, Harvard Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, and her work has been translated into several languages. She immigrated to the United States in 1991 with her husband and children after surviving two years of the fourteen-year series of Liberian civil wars. Her awards include the 2022 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize for Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems, a 2022 Levinson Prize from Poetry Foundation, a 2022 Edward Stanley Poetry Prize for her poem, "My Name is Dawanyeno," a 2002 Crab Orchard Award, among others. Her newest book, Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry, the first comprehensive body of literature from Liberia since that nation's independence in 1847, was released from the University of Nebraska Press in January 2023. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State Altoona.