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A shuttle in the crypt

By:

Soyinka, Wole

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, : Hill and Wang , [1972]Edition: [1st American ed.]Description: viii, 89 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0809086670

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

821 SOY

LOC classification:

PR9387.9.S6 S5 1972b

Summary: In 1967, Wole Soyinka was arrested by the Nigerian government for writings sympathetic to secessionist Biafra, and was placed in solitary confinement for 22 months. Many of these poems were written down in the dark, on cigarette packs or on toilet paper, and describe what Soyinka calls "the landscape of the loss of human contact." There is tension throughout the collection between Soyinka's monumental rage and his necessary forgiveness.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	821 SOY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		031030

In 1967, Wole Soyinka was arrested by the Nigerian government for writings sympathetic to secessionist Biafra, and was placed in solitary confinement for 22 months. Many of these poems were written down in the dark, on cigarette packs or on toilet paper, and describe what Soyinka calls "the landscape of the loss of human contact." There is tension throughout the collection between Soyinka's monumental rage and his necessary forgiveness.

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