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- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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 1
- Argument 2
- 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 Goodbye (India)
- Moon over Heidelberg
- Salt of the Earth
- Eagle in the Sun
- The Aruzzo Farm House
- We Shared
- Happy Birthday
- Glossary
- Chronology
- About Gabriel Okara
- About Brenda Marie Osbey
- Series List