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Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence.

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Praise Song for My Children celebrates twenty-one years of poetry by one of the most significant African poets of this century. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley guides us through the complex and intertwined highs and lows of motherhood and all the roles that it encompasses: parent, woman, wife, sister, friend. Her work is deeply personal, drawing from her own life and surroundings to convey grief, the bleakness of war, humor, deep devotion, and the hope...

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley¿is an associate professor of English¿and creative writing at Pennsylvania State University–Altoona. She has four other books of poetry, including¿Where the Road Turns and Becoming Ebony, part of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry. ¿

In this book, Wesley poetically explores Liberia's Mesurado River through the relationship of two siblings--Klon and Geede.

The fourth poetry collection of Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.

Poetry. African Studies. In BEFORE THE PALM COULD BLOOM, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought. And In poems ofvillage life and customs, the city life of Monrovia, the rites of childhoodand adolescence, Wesley records for the reader a world that has been foreverchanged. Wesley's poems incorporate many African voices, and range in tonefrom sorrow and longing, to humor and ironic wit.

Recapturing the celebratory voice of Africa in poems that are both contemporary and traditional, Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley weaves lyrical storytelling with oral history and images of Africa and America, revealing powerful insights about the relationship between strength and tragedy--and finding reason to celebrate even in the presence of war, difficulties, and death. Rooted in myths that can be traced to the Grebo tradition, "Becomi...