Invoking the Warrior Spirit New and Selected Poems

Name: Invoking the Warrior Spirit New and Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9780865437111

ISBN-10: 0865437114

ISBN-13: 9780865437111

Edition: 1999

Authors: Tanure Ojaide

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Steeped in traditional African oral traditions, yet aware of Western poetic techniques, this anthology of poems expresses the truth of Tanure Ojaide's passionate struggle to achieve an ideal that embraces both public and private dimensions.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Africa World Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.660



Message of Lust


Children of Iroko


What I Carry Along


For Chris Okigbo


February 1st Offering


The Curse


Labyrinths of the Delta


Death of the Warrior


For My Child in Hospital


A Verdict of Stone


Beneath the Skin


I am Going to be Rich


We Keep Watch Over Them


No Prescription Cures A Country Nobody Loves


Today's Pain


Consolation


Songs for Ita


The Battle


Future Gods


London


Naked Words


Rites of Increase


The Example of the Snake


Launching Our Community Development Fund


I Be Somebody


The Hawk Prays for Peace


I am a Bird


Firestorm


The Fate of Vultures


Players


When Tomorrow Is Too Long


The Praisename


Song for My Land


Where Everybody Is King


Where the Nightmare Beings


Two Pieces, After a Dream


For Our Own Reasons


Waking


You Know Why


Kwanza


The Daydream of Ants


The Power of Victims


Death Trail


Beauty Pageant


At the Aerobic Class


On the World Summit for Children at the United Nations, 1990


To Aridon


From The Abibiman Saga


State Executive


Homage: To Idiagbon


Cannons for the Brave


The Crow's Gift


Enter My Dream


Sankofa


Aftermath


from Edon: Forbidden Secrets


Akua-ba


Mornings


School Call


Jubilation Drum


Amulets


The Life Belt


Rekindled Fires


Snapshots on a Wooded Trail


At Muir Woods


New Rivers


Backside


Dialects of Dialogue


Three Questions


At the Barber's Mercy


One Day


Ughoton


Agbon


Visiting Home


Delta Blues


Elegy for Nine Warriros


Waiting for the Next World


My Townsman in the Army


Witness the Fire


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