The Oil Lamp: Poems

By Ogaga Ifowodo

The unfolding carnage in his native Niger Delta provides a frame from which Ogaga Ifowodo seeks to mine meaning from the absurd. Ifowodo sings fragments out of the deluge, born of complex and diverse social registers, speaking with a voice robustly universal yet rooted in local lore. The public idiom of Udje performance poetry sits comfortably with a private and intimate rhetoric to generate a muscular, fighting poetry that startles with lyric tenderness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159221360X
• ISBN13: 9781592213603
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Africa World Press
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.3" x 12.1"