<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "African diaspora — Poetry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "African diaspora — Poetry"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/vpl/rss/search?query=%22African%20diaspora%20%E2%80%94%20Poetry%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:14:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Fierce Departures]]></title><link>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C4629598</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C4629598</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brand, Dionne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4629598038</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Poetry of Dionne Brand</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781554580385/MC.GIF&amp;client=vancp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each One A Furnace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oloruntoba presents a collection of poems exploring (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches. The often-migratory birds in these poems typify the unrest, and inability to rest, that animate the lives of billions in the modern world. Out of the register of ornithology, themes of difficulty, adversity, and migrancy, urban ennui, and the psychic struggles of diasporic peoples take shape as those unable to be at rest in the world take to improbable flight. Trailing the global mobility of birds, in urban and non-urban settings, in historical and contemporary contexts, and through the metaphysical and concrete, this collection is a chronicle of struggle within, and between, cultures.]]></description><link>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C10843499</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C10843499</guid><category><![CDATA[DAISY]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Oloruntoba, Tolu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10843499038</comments><format>DAISY</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781038460424/MC.GIF&amp;client=vancp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad Diaspora Poems]]></title><link>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C9356572</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C9356572</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mehri, Momtaza]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9356572038</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781787334373/MC.GIF&amp;client=vancp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Is for Acholi]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Is for Acholi is a sweeping collection exploring diaspora, the marginalization of the Acholi people, the dusty streets of Nairobi and the cold grey of Vancouver. Playfully upending English and scholarly notation Otoniya J. Okot Bitek rearranges the alphabet, hides poems in footnotes and slips stories into superscripts. The poet opens up ways of rethinking history as she rewrites both the 1862 contact of the Acholi people with the British and the racist texts of Joseph Conrad, while also searching for a way to live on lands that are fraught with the legacies of colonization, similar to her ancestral homeland. With writing that is lyric, layered and deeply felt, the poems in A Is for Acholi unfold maps of history, culture and identity, tracing a route to a present where the poet dreams of writing a world without empire.]]></description><link>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C8681843</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C8681843</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Okot Bitek, Juliane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8681843038</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781989496558/MC.GIF&amp;client=vancp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each One A Furnace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oloruntoba presents a collection of poems exploring (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches. The often-migratory birds in these poems typify the unrest, and inability to rest, that animate the lives of billions in the modern world. Out of the register of ornithology, themes of difficulty, adversity, and migrancy, urban ennui, and the psychic struggles of diasporic peoples take shape as those unable to be at rest in the world take to improbable flight. Trailing the global mobility of birds, in urban and non-urban settings, in historical and contemporary contexts, and through the metaphysical and concrete, this collection is a chronicle of struggle within, and between, cultures.]]></description><link>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C10741202</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C10741202</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Oloruntoba, Tolu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10741202038</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780771051586/MC.GIF&amp;client=vancp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>