Name: Idanre and Other Poems
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Author: Soyinka, Wole
ISBN: 9780809013524

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Author

Wole Soyinka

Publisher

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Year

1987

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4 x 14.3 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN

0809013525

ISBN13

9780809013524

Synopsis "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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