{"product_id":"idanre-and-other-poems-paperback","title":"Idanre and Other Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWole Soyinka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne long poem and an eclectic mix of short poems from the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and polemical essayist Wole Soyinka.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWole Soyinka is one of Africa's outstanding writers. He is already well known in the United States as a playwright; two of his plays, \u003ci\u003eThe Trials of Brother Jero\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKongi's Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e, were produced off-Broadway in New York. A number of his plays and a novel have been published but so far only a handful of his poems have appeared in anthologies and journals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of a long poem and a number of shorter ones. \u003ci\u003eIdanre\u003c\/i\u003e, the long one, was written especially for the Commonwealth (British) Arts Festival (1965) and is a creation myth of Ogun, the Yoruba God of Iron. The other poems range from a meditation on the news of the October Massacres in Northern Nigeria (1966) to a wry lament To My First White Hairs and the love poem Psalm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWole Soyinka--\u003c\/b\u003eplaywright, 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. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.44 x 5.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1987\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450527039666,"sku":"9780809013524","price":20.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7fb061edf3bc1922128974dd57615a5b.webp?v=1778787332","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/idanre-and-other-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}