{"product_id":"9780809013524","title":"Idanre and Other Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eIdanre and Other Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Wole Soyinka\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780809013524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Hill and Wang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593724506318,"sku":"9780809013524","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780809013524","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}