Gabriel Okara :: collected poems /
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 in...
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| Schriftenreihe: | African poetry book series.
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 136 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780803288669 0803288662 9780803288683 0803288689 9780803288676 0803288670 |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Pt. 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 Years 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 -- pt. II The Fisherman's Invocation -- 1. Introit -- 2. The Invocation -- 3. The Child-Front -- 4. Birth Dance of the Child-Front -- 5. The End -- pt. 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 -- pt. IV Revolt of the Gods -- Argument 1 -- Argument 2 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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. | |
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| contents | Pt. 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 Years 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 -- pt. II The Fisherman's Invocation -- 1. Introit -- 2. The Invocation -- 3. The Child-Front -- 4. Birth Dance of the Child-Front -- 5. The End -- pt. 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 -- pt. IV Revolt of the Gods -- Argument 1 -- Argument 2 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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. |
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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 -- pt. IV Revolt of the Gods -- Argument 1 -- Argument 2 -- pt. 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| spelling | Okara, Gabriel, 1921-2019. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgd47qk3MRKk6h9w9RdwC Works Gabriel Okara : collected poems / Gabriel Okara ; edited and with an introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey. Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (xxviii, 136 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier African poetry book series Print version record. Pt. 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 Years 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 -- pt. II The Fisherman's Invocation -- 1. Introit -- 2. The Invocation -- 3. The Child-Front -- 4. Birth Dance of the Child-Front -- 5. The End -- pt. 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 -- pt. IV Revolt of the Gods -- Argument 1 -- Argument 2 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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. 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. English. Nigerian poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091896 POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Nigerian poetry fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast Osbey, Brenda Marie, editor, writer of introduction. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwmRPmYg38t3p4MMT67pP http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84119240 has work: Works (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGqCFmqt6jBf7rXD6PHbq3 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Okara, Gabriel, 1921-2019. Works. Gabriel Okara. Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] 9780803286870 (DLC) 2015035767 (OCoLC)922291489 African poetry book series. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013075237 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1171823 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Okara, Gabriel, 1921-2019 Gabriel Okara : collected poems / African poetry book series. Pt. 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 Years 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 -- pt. II The Fisherman's Invocation -- 1. Introit -- 2. The Invocation -- 3. The Child-Front -- 4. Birth Dance of the Child-Front -- 5. The End -- pt. 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 -- pt. IV Revolt of the Gods -- Argument 1 -- Argument 2 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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. Nigerian poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091896 POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Nigerian poetry fast |
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