Summary
A potent collection of poems that take us into the heart of Africa by Booker Prize winner, Ben Okri.
Dreams are the currency of Okri’s writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri’s dreams are made on the stuff of Africa’s colossal economic and political problems, and reading the poems is to experience a constant succession of metaphors of resolution in both senses of the wor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099736011 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099736012 |
| Author: | Ben Okri |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 1997 |
| Weight: | 66g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 5mm |
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Critics Review
Authenticity shines out of these poems in the way it does from some East European and Russian poets
Authenticity shines out of these poems in the way it does from some East European and Russian poets * Times Literary Supplement *
Accessible and affecting… Born of a big spirit that one cannot ignore – Gillian Ferguson * Scotland on Sunday *
A kaleidoscope of tersely condensed implications, with pregnant shifts of mood, tone and meaning brought to bear in the space of each line break… Most of Okri’s writing is best understood as poetry, even when not laid out in broken lines – Michael Horovitz
About The Author
Ben Okri
Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.
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