THE BEAUTY I HAVE SEEN – A Trilogy (2010) -Tanure Ojaide

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A Trilogy

by Tanure Ojaide

The Beauty I Have Seen. A Trilogy comprises three phases in a poetic journey, ranging from the poet (here called a minstrel) as a public figure, a traveler and observer of humanity, to one grounded in the landscape and fate of his native land. In the various sections of “The Beauty I have Seen”, “Doors of the Forest” and “Flow and other Poems”, Tanure Ojaide expresses multifarious experiences, private and public, that capture the poet’s sensitive life in sensuous images. In these poems that flow like a narrative, form and content fuse into a mature poetic voice at once passionate and restrained, relaxed and poignant.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tanure Ojaide

A renowned poet, Tanure Ojaide has won major national and international poetry awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), twice the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and thrice the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry Prize (1988, 1994 and 2004. In 2016 Ojaide was awarded the the prestigious Fonlon-Nichols Award at the 42nd annual African Literature Association (ALA) conference in Atlanta.

For Tanure Ojaide, “the creative writer is never an airplant, but someone who is grounded in some specific place. It is difficult to talk of many writers without their identification with place. Every writer’s roots are very important in understanding his or her work.” He has read from his poetry in different fora in Africa, Britain, Canada, Israel, Mexico, The Netherlands, and the United States. Some of his poems have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Spanish and French. He is currently the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Visit Tanure Ojaide’s website here: http://www.tanureojaide.com/

Additional information

ISBN

978-978-8422-29-7

Pages

156

Dimensions

216 x 140 mm

Published

2010

Publisher

Malthouse Press, Nigeria

Format

Paperback

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