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Books by Brenda Marie Osbey
  | | All Souls Essential Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2015 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6200-2, ISBN: 0-8071-6200-0 "All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of history, memory, and the indelible bonds between living and dead that has marked the output of Louisiana Poet Laureate Emerita Brenda Marie Osbey. Comprising poems written and published over the span of four decades, this thematic collection highlights the unity of Osbey's voice and narrative intent.The six sections of the book reveal the breadth of her po ..." |
 | | All Saints(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Brenda Marie Osbey Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1997 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2198-6, ISBN: 0-8071-2198-3 ""you might say i have / this peculiar fascination / with the dead," admits Brenda Marie Osbey in All Saints, her American Book Award-winning collection of poems. As a New Orleans native speaking through historical Creole characters, she celebrates the ways the dead maintain a living presence in New Orleans, whether in their above-ground tombs, in religious hoodoo ancestor worship, or in bricks from an old slave factory in the Treme fau ..." |
 | | Gabriel Okara Collected Poems (African Poetry Book) by Gabriel Okara, Brenda Marie Osbey Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8687-0, ISBN: 0-8032-8687-2 "From Africa's first modernist poet Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans sixdecades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature.The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known forThe Fisherman's Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964). Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includesthe poet ..." |
 | | All Saints New and Selected Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 1997 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2197-9, ISBN: 0-8071-2197-5 ""you might say i have / this peculiar fascination / with the dead," admits Brenda Marie Osbey in All Saints, her American Book Award-winning collection of poems. As a New Orleans native speaking through historical Creole characters, she celebrates the ways the dead maintain a living presence in New Orleans, whether in their above-ground tombs, in religious hoodoo ancestor worship, or in bricks from an old slave factory in the Treme fau ..." |
 | | In These Houses(1st Edition) by Brenda Marie Osbey Paperback, 63 Pages, Published 1988 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-1147-8, ISBN: 0-8195-1147-1 |
 | | Circling Faith(1st Edition) Southern Women on Spirituality by Wendy Reed, Jennifer Horne, Mitzi Adams, Marilou Awiakta, Susan Cushman, Amy Blackmarr, Marshall Chapman, Debra Moffitt, Mary Karr, Margaret Gibson, Valerie Reiss, Stella Suberman, Alice Walker, Cia White, Connie May Fowler, Beth Ann Fennelly, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Barbara Robinette Moss, Brenda Marie Osbey, Barbara Brown Taylor Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2012 by University Alabama Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1767-6, ISBN: 0-8173-1767-8 "Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South. Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her to a similar solace in prayer. In “Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow,” Susan Cushman recounts how her dissatisfaction with a Presbyterian upbringing led her to ..." |
 | | Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman by Brenda Marie Osbey Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1991 by Story Line Press ISBN-13: 978-0-934257-57-2, ISBN: 0-934257-57-4 "Book by Osbey, Brenda Marie" |
 | | Ceremony for Minneconjoux(1st Edition) Poems (Callaloo poetry series) by Brenda Marie Osbey, Melvin Dixon Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-912759-00-5, ISBN: 0-912759-00-3 "Osbey's first book of poetry, Ceremony for Minneconjoux, uses the many voices of black women of New Orleans to weave what Mary A. McCay in American Women Writers called "a tapestry of black New Orleans life." These women, whom Osbey calls "madhouse women," reflect their African backgrounds but also the influences of the Spanish and French cultures so prevalent in New Orleans. The title character, "minneconjoux," for example, speaks of h ..." |
 | | All Souls Essential Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey 314 Pages, Published 2015 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6201-9, ISBN: 0-8071-6201-9 "Selections] All souls : essential poems / Brenda Marie Osbey pages ; cm ISBN 978-0-8071-6200-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-08071-6201-9 (pdf) — ISBN 978-0-8071-6202-6 (epub) — ISBN 978-0-8071-6203-3 (mobi) I. Title. PS3565." |
 | | All Souls Essential Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey 312 Pages, Published 2015 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6202-6, ISBN: 0-8071-6202-7 "A Ritual Poem for J. B. Borders IV 1 you walk the high road between this land and the other this dream and another and are not free. displacement is a thing you know at least as well as your own good name. a thing you have known since ..." |
 | | In These Houses(1st Edition) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Brenda Marie Osbey Hardcover, 63 Pages, Published 1988 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-2146-0, ISBN: 0-8195-2146-9 "Book by Osbey, Brenda Marie" |
 | | History and Other Poems by Brendad Marie Osbey Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2013 by Time Being Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56809-179-2, ISBN: 1-56809-179-6 "Poetry. African American Studies. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS takes as its task nothing less than an examination and mapping of the never-ending evil of history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the still-palpable effects of European and American colonialism some seven centuries after the making of the New World. Making, breaking and rebuilding language and languages to suit the needs of her characters and the worlds they struggle to sur ..." |