When the Wanderers Come Home Wesley Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780803288577

When the Wanderers Come HomeAuthor(s): Patricia Jabbeh Wesley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803288577, 978-0803288577\nSynopsis\nDescribed by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain and inner turmoil of ahomeland stillreconciling itself in the aftermath of multiple wars and destruction.\n Wesley, a native Liberian,calls on deeply rooted African motifs and proverbs, utilizing the poetics of both the West and Africa to convey her grief. Autobiographical in nature, the poems highlight the hardships of a diaspora African and the devastation of a country and continent struggling to recover.\nWhen the Wanderers Come Homeis a womans story about being an exi.