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Before the Palm Could Bloom(1st Edition)
Poems of Africa (Inland Seas)
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 1998 by New Issues Poetry And Prose
ISBN-13: 978-0-932826-64-0, ISBN: 0-932826-64-4
"In Before the Palm Could Bloom, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought: 200,000 dead –– including 50,000 children –– and 750,000 citizens forced to take refuge in neighboring countries. And in poems of village life and customs, the city life of Monrovia, the rites of childhood and adolescence, Wesley records for the reader a world that has been forever changed. Wesley's poems ..."
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