Collected poems / Chinua Achebe
- Bib ID:
- 4087872
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Achebe, Chinua, 1930-
- Uniform Title:
- Poems
- Online Version:
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- Description:
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- New York : Anchor Books, c2004
- xi, 84 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781400076581
- 1400076587
- Summary:
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- In lieu of a preface : a parable
- 1966
- Benin road
- Mango seedling
- Pine tree in spring
- The explorer
- Agostinho Neto
- 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
- 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
- Penalty of Godhead
- Those gods are children
- Lament of the sacred python
- Their idiot song
- The Nigerian census
- Flying
- He loves me; he loves me not
- Dereliction
- We laughed at him.
- Subject:
- Nigeria -- Poetry
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2004
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