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Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
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by Gabriel Okara, Brenda Marie Osbey (Introduction), Brenda Marie Osbey (Editor)
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Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
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by Gabriel Okara, Brenda Marie Osbey (Introduction), Brenda Marie Osbey (Editor)
Gabriel Okara
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Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman's Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964).
Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet's earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria's war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara's work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa's most revered poets.
Gabriel Okara was born at Bumoundi, Bayelsa State, in the Niger Delta in 1921 and educated at Government College Umuahia in Nigeria and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He worked as a bookbinder and printer for Federal Government Press at Lagos, served as the director of cultural and information services for the short-lived Republic of Biafra, and was the general manager of the Rivers State newspaper and broadcasting corporations. He is an honorary member of the Pan-African Writers' Association, a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, and is currently writer in residence at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Brenda Marie Osbey is a poet and essayist. Her most recent volumes are History and Other Poems and All Souls: Essential Poems. A native of New Orleans, she is poet laureate emerita of Louisiana and distinguished visiting professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.
Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet's earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria's war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara's work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa's most revered poets.
Gabriel Okara was born at Bumoundi, Bayelsa State, in the Niger Delta in 1921 and educated at Government College Umuahia in Nigeria and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He worked as a bookbinder and printer for Federal Government Press at Lagos, served as the director of cultural and information services for the short-lived Republic of Biafra, and was the general manager of the Rivers State newspaper and broadcasting corporations. He is an honorary member of the Pan-African Writers' Association, a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, and is currently writer in residence at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Brenda Marie Osbey is a poet and essayist. Her most recent volumes are History and Other Poems and All Souls: Essential Poems. A native of New Orleans, she is poet laureate emerita of Louisiana and distinguished visiting professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780803286870 |
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Publisher: | Nebraska |
Publication date: | 04/01/2016 |
Series: | African Poetry Book |
Pages: | 168 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Gabriel Okara was born at Bumoundi, Bayelsa State, in the Niger Delta in 1921 and educated at Government College Umuahia in Nigeria and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He worked as a bookbinder and printer for Federal Government Press at Lagos, served as the director of cultural and information services for the short-lived Republic of Biafra, and was the general manager of the Rivers State newspaper and broadcasting corporations. He is an honorary member of the Pan-African Writers’ Association, a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, and is currently writer in residence at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Brenda Marie Osbey is a poet and essayist. Her most recent volumes are History and Other Poems and All Souls: Essential Poems. A native of New Orleans, she is poet laureate emerita of Louisiana and distinguished visiting professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey Part I: The Early Lyrics The Call of the River Nun Once Upon a Time Piano and Drums Were I to Choose Spirit of the Wind New Year’s Eve Midnight You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed The Mystic Drum One Night at Victoria Beach The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down Adhiambo To Paveba “Franvenkirche” Fantasy The Passing of a Year The Gambler Part II: The Fisherman’s Invocation 1: Introit 2: The Invocation 3: The Child-Front 4: Birth Dance of the Child-Front 5: The End Part III: War Poems Moods from Songs without Words Leave Us Alone I Am Only a Name The Silent Voice Suddenly the Air Cracks Metaphor of a War Cancerous Growth Freedom Day Moon in the Bucket Flying over the Sahara Kindly Sprite Rural Path Lady and Her Wig Silent Girl Cross on the Moon Rain Lullaby Come, Come and Listen Sunday Dispensing Morning Balm To a Star Celestial Song The Glowering Rat The Dead a Spirit Demands Christmas 1971 Welcome Home Waiting for Her Son Part IV: Revolt of the Gods Argument I Argument II Part V: The Dreamer, His Vision The Dreamer Bent Double with Weight Darkness The Precipice Moon Massaged Me to Sleep Adieu! Anthem of Silence Complex Matter Dispensing Morning Balm Setting Sun Beauty beyond Words Taps Are Dry Self Preservation The Little Bird Morbidity Smiling Morning River Nun—2 We Live to Kill and Kill to Live The Land at Christmas ’93 Ovation Seeker Mass Transit Buses Contractors Civil Servants Smokers’ Wish Man Dies, Never Dies Part VI: Prayers and Tributes Give Us Good Leaders Talking Nonsense Rural Dweller Lone Mourner Apartheid Spark in the Sky A Prayer From Ken to Mike Rise and Shine Requiem Man Polygamous Mammy-Water & Me Wedding Bells To the Lady of the House For Ada Udechukwu A Boy’s Dream Queen Letter to My Grandson Babydom Wisdom Waiting for a Coming Snow over Home of the Newly Wed Before I Say Good-Bye (India) Moon over Heidelberg Salt of the Earth Eagle in the Sun The Aruzzo Farm House We Shared Happy Birthday Chronology Glossary
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