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Selected Poems: A Shuttle in the Crypt, Idanre, Mandela's Earth

Selected Poems: A Shuttle in the Crypt, Idanre, Mandela's Earth

by WoleSoyinka (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $37.90
Synopsis

This volume contains poems from 1966 to 1989. A Shuttle in the Crypt , written while Soyinka was in prison, maps out the course trodden by a mind under solitary confinement. Idanre , a poem on the creation myth of Ogun, was written for the Commonwealth Arts Festival, while Mandela's Earth presents a selection of poems that are of searing urgency.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Published: 21 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0413764605
ISBN 13: 9780413764607
Book Overview: Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986)

Media Reviews
'His images run into each other like brilliantly coloured dyes... He has a commanding theme, the need to be earthed : electricity to land, industry to civilisation, aggression to labour, man to woman... His sense of joy and freedom is irrepressible' Richard Homes, The Times
Author Bio
Wole Soyinka - playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist - was born in Nigeria in 1934. Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960. Soyinka's career as a political activist in exile is inseparable from his writing which has earned him world-wide acclaim. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is now Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University, Atlanta.