{"title":"Food Fiction \u0026 Poetry (Alphabetical)","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"african-trilogy-things-fall-apart-arrow-of-god-no-longer-at-ease-chinua-achebe-kwame-anthony-appiah","title":"The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease \/\/\/ Chinua Achebe with foreword by Kwame Anthony Appiah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who opened the magic casements of African fiction. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe African Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--comprised of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArrow of God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo Longer at Ease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe trilogy opens with the groundbreaking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the tale of Okonkwo, a hero in his village, whose clashes with missionaries--coupled with his own tragic pride--lead to his fall from grace. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArrow of God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e takes up the ongoing conflict between continuity and change as Ezeulu, the headstrong chief priest, finds his authority is under threat from rivals and colonial functionaries. But he believes himself to be untouchable and is determined to lead his people, even if it is towards their own destruction. Finally, in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo Longer at Ease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Okonkwo's grandson, educated in England, returns to a civil-service job in Lagos, only to see his morality erode as he clings to his membership in the ruling elite.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on the traditional Igbo tales of Achebe's youth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe African Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a literary landmark, a mythic and universal tale of modern Africa. As Toni Morrison wrote, African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. For passion, intellect and crystalline prose, he is unsurpassed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBIO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eChinua Achebe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1930-2013) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas born in Nigeria. Widely considered to be the father of modern African literature, he is best known for his masterful African Trilogy, consisting of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThings Fall Apart, Arrow of God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Longer at Ease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The trilogy tells the story of a single Nigerian community over three generations from first colonial contact to urban migration and the breakdown of traditional cultures. 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He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and, for more than fifteen years, was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. Achebe was the recipient of the Nigerian National Merit Award, Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement. 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Her first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eGood Times\u003c\/em\u003e, was rated one of the best books of the year by the New York Times in 1969.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eClifton remained employed in state and federal government positions until 1971, when she became a writer in residence at Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland, where she completed two collections: \u003cem\u003eGood News About the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e (1972) and \u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Woman\u003c\/em\u003e (1974).\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eShe went on to write several other collections of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eVoices\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, 2008); \u003cem\u003eMercy\u003c\/em\u003e (2004); \u003cem\u003eBlessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), which won the National Book Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Terrible Stories\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), which was nominated for the National Book Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Light\u003c\/em\u003e (1993); \u003cem\u003eQuilting: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e 1987-1990 (1991); \u003cem\u003eNext: New Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1987).\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eHer collection \u003cem\u003eGood Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980\u003c\/em\u003e (1987) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; \u003cem\u003eTwo-Headed Woman\u003c\/em\u003e (1980), also a Pulitzer Prize nominee, was the recipient of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize. She has also written \u003cem\u003eGenerations: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e (1976) and more than sixteen books for children, written expressly for an African-American audience.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eLucille Clifton's honors include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Lannan Literary Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shelley Memorial Award, the YM-YWHA Poetry Center Discovery Award, and the 2007 Ruth Lilly Prize.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eIn 1999, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. 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Among her best known novels are \u003cem\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSong of Solomon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Young\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eArdency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e, out from Knopf in January 2011. His \u003cem\u003eJelly Roll: A Blues\u003c\/em\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. He is the editor of five volumes, including 2010's \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing\u003c\/em\u003e; his book \u003cem\u003eThe Grey Album: Music, Shadows, Lies\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2010 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming in 2012. He is the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Glaser\u003c\/strong\u003e served as Poet Laureate of Maryland, from August 2004 through August 2009. He graduated from Denison University with a B.A. and from Kent State University with a M.A. and Ph.D. He began teaching at St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1970, retired and became a Professor Emeritus in 2008. He has published six collections of poetry and edited two anthologies. Dr. Glaser was Lucille Clifton's longtime friend and assistant.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"From the earliest poems collected here, we see the familial merged seamlessly with the political, the general woven with the homespun...All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it.\" --\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"If there is any doubt that Lucille Clifton (1963-2010) was one of the powerfully original poetic voices of our time, this volume should dispel it. Poem after poem, book after book, that varied but ever vigorous voice sang fearlessly and gracefully... Clifton's was a multifarious intelligence that could at times seem otherworldly; she inhabited and was attentive to both physical and spiritual plains; she spoke with the dead and the living with confidence. While her work could be contemporary and personal, she was often drawn to tell and retell ancient tales... She was an enlightened and enlightening poet, and this collection shines a welcome light on her work.\" --\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen Books: A Poem Emporium\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A selection for Ms. Magazine's 2012 Best Books by Women, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a welcome anthology, representative of more than 40 years of Clifton's writing. 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Finney's poetic voice is defined by an intimacy that holds a soft yet exacting eye on the erotic, on uncanny political and family events, like her mother's wedding waltz with South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, and then again on the heartbreaking hilarity of an American president's final State of the Union address. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtful and intense, Finney's poems ask us to be mindful of what we fraction, fragment, cut off, dice, dishonor, or throw away, powerfully evoking both the lawless and the sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBIO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNikky Finney\u003c\/strong\u003e was born at the rim of the Atlantic Ocean, in South Carolina, in 1957. The daughter of activists and educators, she began writing in the midst of the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. 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In 2007, Finney edited the anthology, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(University of Georgia Press\/Cave Canem), which has become an essential compilation of contemporary African American writers. Her fourth full-length collection of poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHead Off \u0026amp; Split\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is a National Book Award Winner. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinney and her work have been featured on Russell Simmons DEF Poetry (HBO series), renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson's feature \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Food\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (a PBS production) and National Public Radio. Her work has been praised by Walter Mosley, Nikki Giovanni, Gloria Naylor and the late CBS\/60 Minutes news anchor Ed Bradley. Finney has held distinguished posts at Berea College as the Goode Chair in the Humanities and Smith College as the Grace Hazard Conklin Writer-in-Residence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinney is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University Kentucky. She is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Nikky Finney has been a fine poet much too long to say that this latest treasure is her promise coming into being. She exploded with so much talent with \u003cem\u003eOn Wings Made of Gauze\u003c\/em\u003e and beautifully matured with \u003cem\u003eRice\u003c\/em\u003e, yet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHead Off \u0026amp; Split\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes the promise of youth with the control of adulthood to bring her greatest exploration. Honest, searing, searching. We all, especially now, need this book of poems; we all, especially now, need this poet.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eNikki Giovanni\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBicycles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Poetry can be so many things in the right hands. It can elevate the senses, challenge perceptions, or increase understanding of complex topics. 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She was a contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Jesmyn Ward, and has been published in the \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review, Iowa Review, \u003c\/em\u003eand other literary publications. Jeffers was elected into the American Antiquarian Society, whose members include fourteen U.S. presidents, and is Critic at Large for \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She teaches creative writing and literature at University of Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Triumphant. . . . Quite simply the best book that I have read in a very, very long time. . . . 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