Messages Left Behind
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"Lupenga Mphande's poetry is a poetry of love. Love for his country, Malawi,and its people, whose soul and beauty have survived a long and bloody dictatorship. Love for family and his friends who have shaped him and helped him to endure the pain of exile. It is the same and unique love, in fact, a strong and healthy love of life in all its forms, deeply rooted in his native land, that continues to grow on American soil."
- Jacques-Noel Gouat, Ph.D., Bourg St. Christophe, France
Title: Messages Left Behind / Poetry
Type: Paperback
ISBN 978-0-9821660-6-2
Date: June 7th, 2011
Price: $14.95
Current Titles
Watering the Beloved Desert
Mvula ya Nangolo’s collection is the fruit of several decades’ poetic refl ection. It is combative, public verse, which wears its Namibian nationalism and Pan-African antiimperialism on its sleeve. Despite the insistent patriotism, Watering the Beloved Desert intermittently shows a more intimate side to Mvula’s personae, especially in the last section where the years of exile dissolve into the more complex struggles of the postindependence
period."
—David Kerr, author of Tangled Tongues and Head, Department of Media Studies, University of Botswana.
Book Title: Watering the Beloved Desert
Type: Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-0-9821660-0-1
Published: November 2008
Regular Price: $14.95 USD
Passages
"Readers of this early work by Zgambo, with its extraordinary blend of astutely
captured detail, gentle humour, deep human sympathy, and penetrating social
analysis, will understand why the author has eventually emerged as one of the
towering figures on the literary, moral, scholarly and political landscape of Central and Southern Africa."
—Adrian Roscoe, editor of The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945 and Associate Professor of English, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.
Book Title: Passages
Type: Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-0-9821660-3-1
Published: December 2008
Price: $13.95 USD
The Sun Whispers,Wait
"Brown’s poems capture the delicate and subtle nuances of everyday life with precision, grace, and wisdom. His poetic voice gives new life to familiar scenes of joy, faith, doubt, and loss. Brown invites us into the lives of people
we all know and makes them interesting and provocative and new. His various speakers come alive in delightful lines
that spark new thoughts and reflections about daily life, family, and community. The Sun Whispers poems are fluid
and bold interpretations of Brown’s world. These poems will make anyone laugh, think, and reflect in ways they never
have before."
—Chris Freeburg, Assistant Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Book Title: The Sun Whispers, Wait: New and Collected Poems
Type: Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-0-9821660-3-1
Published: April 2009
Price: $15.95 USD
The Rock at the Corner of My Heart
"The beautiful title image of this collection is given content in poems ranging from
tenderly vivid memories of a communal South African childhood to evocations
of a sophisticated American setting of chardonnay and cymbals; moving back to
mordantly witty comments on apartheid atrocities and then relocating in playfully
symbolic pieces on North American weather states. The rock remains in the heart’s
corner although the poet wanders far abroad. These poems live in the whole world
and see it with a clear eye, whether the particular sight be horrific or joyful."
—Annie Gagiano, author of Achebe; Head; Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa and Professor of English, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Book Title: The Rock at the Corner of My Heart
Type: Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-0-9821660-3-1
Published: June 2009
Price: $14.95 USD
To Wreck the Whirlwind with a Glance
"Lina Zerón is a force of nature.
In all of her poetry what we hear is a woman fearlessly in charge of herself. A woman that speaks for many women.
Searching for love on her terms, for passion, for freedom of the spirit.
Mexico will not be Mexico without her voice."
—Chiqui Vicioso, author of EVA/SION/ES and Ambassador for Women, Children and Adolescents at the Dominican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Book Title: To Wreck the Whirlwind with a Glance [Bilingual Spanish-English Edition]
Type: Paperback
ISBN 13: 978-0-9821660-5-5
Published: August 2009
Price: $14.95 USD
