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Collected PoemsChinua Achebe
Categories: 20th Century, African, BAME
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (96 pages) (Pub. Nov 2005) 9781857548433 £11.99 £10.79
remember also your children
for they in their time will want a place for their feet when they come of age and the dance of the future is born for them. from 'Beware, Soul Brother'
Chinua Achebe is one of the founding fathers of African literature in English, a writer of world stature whose novel Things Fall Apart is one of the essential works of the twentieth century. This Collected Poems draws on his three collections of poetry, and includes seven previously unpublished poems; it reveals a lifetime of poetic engagement with politics, war and culture, inherited wisdom and the making of new futures. Achebe's poems are ironic, generous and tender, drawing deep on the Igbo traditions of his African roots, confronting the continent's harsh realities of violence and exploitation.
Table of Contents
In Lieu of a Preface: A Parable Prologue 1966 Benin Road Mango Seedling Pine Tree in Spring The Explorer Agostinho Neto Poems About War The First Shot A Mother in a Refugee Camp Christmas in Biafra (1969) Air Raid Biafra, 1969 An "If" of History Remembrance Day A Wake for Okigbo After a War Poems Not About War Love Song (for Anna) Love Cycle Question Answer Beware, Soul Brother NON-commitment Generation Gap Misunderstanding Knowing Robs Us Bull and Egret Lazarus Vultures Public Execution in Pictures Gods, Men, and Others Penalty of Godhead Those Gods Are Children Lament of the Sacred Python Their Idiot Song The Nigerian Census Flying Epilogue He Loves Me; He Loves Me Not Dereliction We Laughed at Him Notes
'...easily the most powerful book I read in 2005.'
Matthew Sweet, the Independent
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