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Mandela's earth and other poems / Wole Soyinka.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.S6 M36 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soyinka, Wole, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African poetry (English).
- English poetry--20th century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 70 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Mandela's earth.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1988]
- Contents:
- 1, Mandela's earth. Your logic frightens me, Mandela
- Like Rudolf Hess, the man said!
- So now they burn the roof above her head (for Winnie)
- Funeral sermon, Soweto
- "No!" he said (for Nelson Mandela)
- Apologia (Nkomati). 2, After the deluge. After the deluge
- Apollodorus on the Niger
- The apotheosis of Master Sergeant Doe. 3, New York, U.S.A. New York, U.S.A.
- Muhammad Ali at the ringside, 1985
- My tongue does not marry slogans (for Odia Ofeimun). 4, Dragonfly at my windowpane. Dragonfly at my windowpane
- Love potion (for a student believer)
- Campus, Ile-Ife
- Cremation of a wormy caryatid.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0394570219
- 9780394570211
- OCLC:
- 17841402
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