Kola articles from September 2002

Kola archives from September 2002

Editorial.
September 22, 2002... The search for 'self is a concept that is as old as man himself. Adam's and Eve's quest for self knowledge resulted in their banishment from the Garden of Eden for disobedience. Man's innate need to understand the essence of his being provides...

Africadian History: An Exhibit Catalogue. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Africadian History: An Exhibit Catalogue Open up the borders, our people are suffocating to death! ---Trudeau Smoked wheat, the yawning, sabled Atlantic; Ice-cold shackles, bitter-lettered Bibles; Gravel junkies,...

November 1998 (II). (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 2002... November 1998 (II) That bunch of snivellers should simply have been sent packing and been told to stop having tantrums like spoiled adolescents. --Trudeau Quebec leaders--Chefs--come across groaning Election quarrel, everything...

The Silent Pen. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 2002... The Silent Pen When vain Death demands absolute silence...Forthwith what can one do, but lay down the pen- in mid stroke, if need be, never to scribe again a word, a phrase, a song; which if completed, may well have...

Ode to a Beachcomber. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 2002... Ode to a Beachcomber And o-o-oh! the seas did roar in fits of sorrow lost, as tearful tides of loneliness, did trash 'n heave 'n toss. Vast fields of pastoral verse awash beside the shore, the gatherer of those precious...

The Pearl Gatherer. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 2002... The Pearl Gatherer And Heaven's gates swung wide, in sweet anticipation - of this new celestial scribe. George Borden is a Nova Scotian poet. His poems have appeared in several publications and anthologies, including Fire on the...

Flint/steelsparks on tropic moon-night. (Short Fiction).(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... Holding his head straight up on slender neck and bulging Adam's apple, Maurice walked (click/clack/clikety/clack) under a full-moon tropic sky. And as he walked, he listened to the firm striking of shoes upon the narrow broken pavement. Another...

Let me fix your piano. (Short Fiction).(Short Story)
September 22, 2002... Rudolph Spearnov and his wife Eleana escaped from Russia during the uprising. He was a well-known pianist. He had become engaged to his wife when she was 16, and they got married two years later when she was 18. He was 32 years old. ...

Travel discourse in Caryl Phillips' The Final Passage and A State of Independence. (Literary Criticism).
September 22, 2002... Travel discourse in Anglophone West Indian post-colonial writing has its nexus in British imperial literary traditions. The displacement of Blacks from Africa and their implantation in the Caribbean and Americas have left them in an ontological...

Aesthetic modes in Afro-American fiction: Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison. (Literary Criticism).
September 22, 2002... Several Afro-American writers such as Phyllis Wheatley, Countee Cullen and W. E. B. Dubois depicted Africa in several of their works. Most of them were influenced by the religious and socio-political ideologies of their time in portraying...