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008			120807r1972 nyu 000 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPR9387.9.S6 _bS5 1972b
082	0	0	_a821 SOY
100	1		_aSoyinka, Wole
245	1	2	_aA shuttle in the crypt
250			_a[1st American ed.]
260			_aNew York, _b: Hill and Wang _c, [1972]
300			_aviii, 89 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aIn 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.
650		4	_aPrisons _x--Poetry
651		0	_aNigeria _v--Poetry
942			_cMO
999			_c269814 _d269814