A shuttle in the crypt
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, : Hill and Wang , [1972]Edition: [1st American ed.]Description: viii, 89 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0809086670
- 821 SOY
- PR9387.9.S6 S5 1972b
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 821 SOY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 031030 |
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821 SKE The complete poems of John Skelton | 821 SMI Selected poems | 821 SMI The collected poems of Stevie Smith [i.e. F. M. Smith]. | 821 SOY A shuttle in the crypt | 821 SWI Swinburne , a selection | 821 THO Collected Poems, 1934-1952 | 821 WIL The ballad of Reading gaol |
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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