Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
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Born
Liberia
Genre
Influences
African oral tradition, Wallace Stevens, e.e.cummings, Wole Soyinka, C
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Member Since
November 2007
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Becoming Ebony (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
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2003
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3 editions
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The River Is Rising
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2007
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3 editions
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When the Wanderers Come Home (African Poetry Book)
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2016
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5 editions
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Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (New Issues Press Poetry Series)
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1998
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Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems
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2020
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3 editions
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Where the Road Turns
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2010
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Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry (African Poetry Book)
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In Monrovia, The River Visits The Sea
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2013
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Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts: Cutthroat 24 Vols. 1 & 2 Spring 2019
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Praise Song for My Children
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“I'm almost ashamed to burden my friends
with news of another dead relative, as if I were
some storehouse of dead people
- Send Me Some Black Clothes”
― When the Wanderers Come Home
with news of another dead relative, as if I were
some storehouse of dead people
- Send Me Some Black Clothes”
― When the Wanderers Come Home
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