Selected Poems
A Shuttle in the Crypt, Idanre, Mandela's Earth
Published on 21. February 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-413-76460-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-413-76460-7 (9780413764607)
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Person
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.