TY - BOOK ID - 77944776 TI - My brother, my sister AU - Burns, Loretta Susie AU - Ndi, Bill F PY - 2012 SN - 1280683767 9786613660701 9956727865 9956727504 9956727156 9789956727155 9789956727506 9956727261 9789956727261 9781280683763 9956727261 9789956727261 6613660701 9789956727865 PB - Mankon, Bamenda Langaa Research & Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Cameroonian poetry (English) KW - American poetry. KW - Cameroon poetry (English) KW - English poetry KW - Cameroonian literature (English) KW - American literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77944776 AB - The fiery passion and epigrammatic terseness with which Loretta Burns re-enacts her experiences and observations as an African American woman in contemporary America reveal her as a poet of life who transcends the labels African American, feminist, and/or womanist. Her poetry captures moments and scenes of living that echo her impressions and intuitions of a world trapped between appearance and reality, illusion and disillusion, expectation and realization, the material and the spiritual. Through her deceptive simplicity of diction, she explores the nooks and crannies of her psyche as well as ER -