Gabriel Okara
Collected Poems
Gabriel Okara author Brenda Marie Osbey editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Published:1st Apr '16
Should be back in stock very soon
Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman’s Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964).
Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet’s earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria’s war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow poets, activists, and loved ones long dead; and recent dramatic and narrative poems. The introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey contextualizes Okara’s work in the history of Nigerian, African, and English language literatures. Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems is at once a treasure for those long in search of a single authoritative edition and a revelation and timely introduction for readers new to the work of one of Africa’s most revered poets.
“Gabriel Okara [is] the only person who could ever be called both ‘the elder statesman of Nigerian literature and the first Modernist poet of Anglophone Africa.’ Those who know, know who he is; who no know, go know.”—Aaron Brady, Literary Hub
“It is with publication of Gabriel Okara’s first poem that Nigerian literature in English and modern African poetry in this language can be said truly to have begun.”—from the introduction by Brenda Marie Osbey
ISBN: 9780803286870
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168 pages