Pages from the book of the sun : new and selected poems / Niyi Osundare
| Author(s): | Osundare, Niyi, 1947- |
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| Subjects: | Nigeria--Poetry |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2002 |
| LC Classification: | P, PR |
| Table of Contents: | People Are My Clothes 3 Telling Gift 6 Thresholds 8 Stolen Silence 11 Musing Boulders 13 Book of Absence 14 Poems in Prison 15 Ode to Hate 16 A Modest Question 18 Purple Swagger 19 Rwanda 20 The Large Heart 21 Letter From the Editor 23 Text Worship 24 Entry Point Encounter 26 Beneath the Prairie Moon 30 Scribe of the Scribe 32 For Eldred Durosimi Jones 33 For Dorah Funmilayo Rosen 36 Feathered Heels 37 For Georgina Beier 39 Chavakali 41 Waiting For The Rain 42 For Breyten Breytenbach 44 The Battle of Hastings 45 For Kofi Agovi 47 Death Came in Little Whispers 49 For Tom Dent 51 Checkpoint Charlie 56 Berlin 1884/85 57 Zimbabwe (1) 58 Princess of Asmara 59 Invocation to Honor 60 Memory's Road 67 Memory Street 73 Scars of Unremembrance 75 We Shall Remember 78 Africa's Memory 80 Skinsong (2) 81 Skinsong (3) 82 End of History 83 Tender Courage 84 Green Memory 85 Memory's Mask 86 Testament (1) 87 Victim of a Map 88 Who's Afraid of the Proverb? 89 On Reading Senghor, Again 91 Peopled Imagination 93 I Met History Today 94 Horses of Memory 98 From Rocksongs 105 From What the River Said 112 From Human in Every Sense 116 From Diary of the Sun 124 From Breaking Walls 127 From Midlife 131 From Thread in the Loom 135 I pluck these words 139 Waiting ... 143 Waiting for the heifer 145 Waiting for the anxious fumes 146 Waiting like the grass 148 Winnowing season: we-knowing-season 149 Waiting like the Bastllie 151 Waiting on the stairs of the moon 152 My song is the even rib 153 The innocence of the Niger 154 Waiting still waiting 157 Waiting like the pothole 160 Waiting like a Hyena 161 Okerebu kerebu 162 Whoever hasn't kissed 164 Waiting like the eternal wisdom 165 Sowing 166 Waiting ... Grant us 168 From Moonsongs: Phase: I 171 From Moonsongs: Phase: II 175 From Moonsongs: Phase: III 177 From Moonsongs: Phase: V 178 From Moonsongs: Phase: VI 179 From Moonsongs: Phase: X 180 From Moonsongs: Phase: XII 182 From Moonsongs: Phase: XVI 184 From Moonsongs: Phase: XVII 186 From Moonsongs: Phase: XIX 187 From Moonsongs: Phase: XXII 189 From Moonsongs: Phase: XXIV 190 From Moonsongs: Monday Morning 192 From Moonsongs: Noonview 193 From Moonsongs: Shadows of Time 195 Earth 203 From Forest Echoes 204 The Rocks Rose to Meet Me 206 Harvestcall 210 Let Earth's Pain be Soothed 213 First Rain 215 Raindrum 216 Meet Me at Okeruku 217 But Sometimes When It Rains 218 Farmer-born 219 Ours to Plough, not to Plunder 221 Our Earth Will Not Die 222 The Word 227 Calling a Spade 228 The Poet 229 Shaping Clay 231 Like the Bee 233 Not Standing Still 234 A Nib in the Pond 235 Scribbling Hoe 236 Questions for a Pandering Poet 237 Atewolara 238 Letter from the Publisher 239 For John Donne 240 Promise Land 241 Collage 242 I am the Common Man 246 Noon Yet 248 Poetry Is 251 Siren 252 The Nigerian Railway 254 On Seeing a Benin Mask in a British Museum 255 Mindscope 257 I Sing of Change 258 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 00033217 ISBN: 0865438676 ISBN: 0865438684 (pbk.) |
| Physical Description: | 258 p. ; 21 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 44090426 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0865438676 0865438684 |