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| Genre/Form: | Poetry |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Achebe, Chinua. Collected poems. New York : Anchor Books, 2004 (OCoLC)607465469 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Chinua Achebe |
| ISBN: | 1400076587 9781400076581 |
| OCLC Number: | 54006933 |
| Description: | xi, 84 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | In lieu of a preface: a parable -- Prologue -- 1966 -- Benin road -- Mango seedling -- Pine tree in spring -- The Explorer -- Agostinho Neto -- Poems about war -- The First shot -- A Mother in a refugee camp -- Christmas in Biafra(1969) -- Air raid -- Biafra, 1969 -- An "if" of history -- Remembrance day -- A Wake for Okigbo -- After a war -- Poems not about war -- Love song (for Anna) -- Love cycle -- Question -- Answer -- Beware, soul brother -- NON-commitment -- Generation gap -- Misunderstanding -- Knowing robs us -- Bull and egret -- Lazarus -- Vultures -- Public execution in pictures -- Gods, men and others -- Penalty of godhead -- Those gods are children -- Lament of the sacred python -- Their idiot song -- The Nigerian census -- Flying -- Epilogue He loves me, he loves me not -- Dereliction -- We laughed at him -- Notes. |
| Other Titles: | Poems |
| Responsibility: | Chinua Achebe. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"Featuring seven new, never-before-published poems in addition to Chinua Achebe's award-winning earlier work, Collected Poems makes available again after more than twenty-five years the poetry of Africa's foremost novelist. From an account of the tragedy of Biafra to an appeal to African consciousness, from a gentle mockery of tradition to a recollection of personal relationships, Achebe's poems are marked by a richness of language and blend simplicity and eloquence, fierceness and tenderness and a careful attention to the minute - a facial expression, a wrinkled hand, a sunbeam."--Jacket.
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