An African Elegy Paperback
by Ben Okri
Vintage Books USA (Apr 24, 1997)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
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Description of An African Elegy Paperback by Ben Okri
Dreams are the currency of Okri’s writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri’s dreams are made on the stuff of Africa’s colossal economic and political problems, and reading the poems is to experience a constant succession of metaphors of resolution in both senses of the word. Virtually every poem contains an exhortation to climb out of the African miasma, and virtually every poem harvests the dream of itself with an upbeat restorative ending’ - Giles Foden, Times Literary Supplement.

Additional Book Information:
- ISBN: 9780099736011
- Imprint: Vintage Books USA
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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