| Walking Safari: Poems Contributor(s): Polk, Noel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933896744 ISBN-13: 9781933896748 Publisher: Texas Review Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2011023203 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.30 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The poems in the first part of this book are set in and/or inspired by my walking safari in the South Luangwa Valley of Zambia in the summer of 2010. Some of the poems are whimsical responses to the guidebook, others taking serious the Mississippi-Africa axis in race relations. The title poem is a long meditation on that axis. Two poems are set in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, where friends took us to an AIDS compound (read: Ghetto) and another to an AIDS hospital. The "other poems" are poems I wrote many years ago and others that I started but recently finished; others are new poems, mostly set in and around my life in Mississippi.--Noel Polk |