{"product_id":"idanre-and-other-poems-9780809013524","title":"Idanre and Other Poems","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hill \u0026amp; Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809013524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.64w x 0.26d","brand":"Wole Soyinka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644221845660,"sku":"9780809013524","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e34f9cb8-7c64-428a-916a-f385be3e2a62.jpg?v=1603858129","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/idanre-and-other-poems-9780809013524","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}