Invoking the Warrior Spirit: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Ojaide, Tanure

9780865437111: Invoking the Warrior Spirit: New and Selected Poems

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ISBN 10: 0865437114 ISBN 13: 9780865437111

Publisher: Africa World Pr, 2000

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These poems bear testimony to a Poet's passionate struggle to achieve a certain ideal which encompasses public and private dimensions. Steeped in traditional African oral culture and aware of Western poetic techniques, the poet in this journey from innocence to experience weaves an intense tapestry of words that are at once simple, imagistic, stunning, and musical. While he at times bemoans the many problems his people face, there is, through exhortations, a strong undercurrent of hope which fortifies him and reinforces the lines into a terrible beauty. This is an endless warrior's song of love for people, the earth and humanity.

In addition to new poems, this collection ranges from selections from the poet's early work written while a young undergraduate at the University of Ibadan during the Nigerian Civil war of the late 1960s through phases of different moods and locations to fairly recent poems written while working in the United States in the 1990s.

About the Author:

Tanure Ojaide has published eight collections of poetry, two books of literary essays, and a memoir. A Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa, Ojaide was educated at St. George's Grammar School (Obinomba), Federal Government College (Warri), University of Ibadan, and Syracuse University. His poetry awards include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the African Region, the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry, the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award, and the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Award. Ojaide taught for many years at the University of Maiduguri, and is currently a professor of African-American and African Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has read from his poetry in Britain, Canada, Ghana, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, The Netherlands, and the United States. His poetry has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, and French. His latest book, a memoir his childhood years, is Great Boys: An African Childhood (AWP 1998).

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