| #1143283 in Books | Achebe, Chinua | 2004-08-10 | 2004-08-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.90 x.27 x5.10l,.24 | File type: PDF | 96 pages | Anchor Books||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Accessible and Beautiful, A Delecate Balance|By Amanda Rose Adams|I just finished reading Chinua's Collected Poems about Nigeria. I really loved it. It was entirely accessible and he provided a few end notes that were helpful but not entirely necessary because he was easy to follow. I believe that it is harder to be an accessible and beautiful poet than simply to string comp|From Publishers Weekly|One of the world's most admired novelists, Achebe (Things Fall Apart; Anthills of the Savannah) has maintained a separate (and much less prolific) career as a poet: this slender volume shows American readers that work. Achebe
"The father of African literature in the English language and undoubtedly one of the most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century." --Caryl Phillips, The Observer
Chinua Achebe's award-winning poems are marked by a subtle richness and the political acuity and moral vision that are a signature of all of his work. Focused and powerful, and suffused with wisdom and compassion, Collected Poems is further evidence of this...
You easily download any file type for your device.Chinua Achebe: Collected Poems | Chinua Achebe. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!