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.
Poem to neto by achebe ends with the line "Thou Healer, Soldier and Poet"
LoC Classification |
PR9387.9.A3A17 2004 |
Dewey |
821/.914 |
Nationality |
African |
Cover Price |
$12.00 |
No. of Pages |
96 |
Height x Width |
7.7
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5.2
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