Idanre and Other Poems

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."

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Wole Soyinka

Product details

• Authors: Wole Soyinka
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1987
• EAN: 9780809013524
• ISBN: 978-0-8090-1352-4
• No. of pages: 92
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 128 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama