The River Is Rising by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

The River Is Rising

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The River Is Rising

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The River Is Rising

by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and her family fled their native country of Liberia after suffering tremendous privations and violence during the bloody Liberian Civil War in 1991. These poems are more than the story of one woman who carried her children over dead bodies, walking dozens of miles from Monrovia, through dirty streams amidst government soldier and rebel killing fields, fleeing bombs and constant gun battles, who with her husband and small children were forced to survive on roots in a displacement camp outside Monrovia, where they witnessed every kind of crime against women. Jabbeh Wesley did more than survive. She helped other women. She wrote.

Book Details
Publisher:
Press 53
ISBN:
9781950413591
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
124
Authors:
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Published Date:
2023-08-15
Language:
English
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About Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley was born in Monrovia and raised there and in her father's village of Tugbakeh. She immigrated with her family to southern Michigan in 1991 to escape the Liberian civil war. She holds a BA from the University of Liberia, a master's from Indiana University and a PhD from Western Michigan University, and has taught creative writing and African literature at Penn State Altoona. Her collections include Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (New Issues, 1998), Becoming Ebony (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), The River Is Rising (Autumn House Press, 2007) and When the Wanderers Come Home (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Praise Song for My Children won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award in 2023.

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