One long poem and an eclectic mix of short poems from the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and polemical essayist Wole Soyinka.
Wole Soyinka is one of Africa's outstanding writers. He is already well known in the United States as a playwright; two of his plays, The Trials of Brother Jero and Kongi's Harvest, were produced off-Broadway in New York. A number of his plays and a novel have been published but so far only a handful of his poems have appeared in anthologies and journals.
This collection consists of a long poem and a number of shorter ones. Idanre, the long one, was written especially for the Commonwealth (British) Arts Festival (1965) and is a creation myth of Ogun, the Yoruba God of Iron. The other poems range from a meditation on the news of the October Massacres in Northern Nigeria (1966) to a wry lament "To My First White Hairs" and the love poem "Psalm."
| Autorius: | Wole Soyinka |
| Leidėjas: | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL |
| Išleidimo metai: | 1987 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 92 |
| ISBN-10: | 0809013525 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780809013524 |
| Formatas: | 216 x 140 x 6 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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