Soyinka, Wole <br/><br/>
A shuttle in the crypt 

 - [1st American ed.] 
 - New York,  : Hill and Wang  , [1972] 
 - viii, 89 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0809086670 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>77185430 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prisons----Poetry
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Nigeria----Poetry
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR9387.9.S6  / S5 1972b 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>821 SOY