Introduction:-
Stone Child and Other Poems by Syl Cheney-Coker is an anthology that embodies the poem "The Breast of the Sea by Syl Cheney-Coker" and many other poems of his.
As already noted, "The Breast of the Sea" is one of the
forty (40) poems in the anthology titled Stone Child and Other Poems published
by the poet in the year 2008 with ISBN 9789780810672.
Synopsis:-
Stone Child is about the nameless gemstone child that became
such a feature in the recent history of the poet’s country. Written with
compassion and moral deliberation, the poems in the first section of this
volume resound with the pain and love that the poet felt as he reflected on the
tumultuous politics and tragic destiny of his beautiful land. The rest of the
volume is in homage to people and places around the world that have also
touched the poet deeply. It is Cheney-Coker at his most humane, while he was
dealing with a personal tragedy during his most recent period in exile.
The list of poems in the book are: Homage to Stone Child,
New Year in Freetown, 1999, Our Lady of Diamonds, When the Dead Talk, The
Meaning of Our Rivers 1, The Meaning of Our Rivers 2, This Evening, Next
Morning, The Breast of the Sea, Letters from Home, The Golden Chalice, Out of
the Abyss, Old Rites, New Mirrors, Las Vegas Gothic, Short Tail, On Viewing
Chris Ofili’s “Holy Virgin Mary”, All His White Hairs, Olodumare’s Clay, The
Birds At the Harbourfront, The Orators, Harmonies, Death in New York, Sept 11,
1973 & 2001, Oceanic Cantabile, Turkish Diptych, Iranian Diptych, The Gods
of the G-8 Summit, Lake Fire, To My Wife Dying of Cancer 1, To My Wife Dying of
Cancer 2, Homecoming, New Frontier, Life Sketches, A Simple Lesson, Transition,
Portraits of a family, The Madman Near the British High Commission in Freetown,
Profit and Loss, The Nobel Tree Woman & Elegy For the Ebola Saint, Bitter
Leaves, Widow(er)hood.
The Author:-
Syl Cheney-Coker, Sierra Leonean poet and novelist. Author
of three previous volumes: Concerto for an Exile; The Graveyard Also Has Teeth;
and The Blood in the Desert’s Eyes. In 1991, he was awarded the Commonwealth
Writer’s Prize (Africa’s Best Book Region), for his novel The Last Harmattan of
Alusine Dumbar. He has also won Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His poetry has been
translated into Spanish, Dutch, Russian, French, Portuguese and Chinese.
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