In this book, Egya provides readers with an analytical and theoretical survey of Nigerian poetry of the 1980s. Throughout the text, he places emphasis on the cultural context in which the
poetry was written and published, focusing on the interaction between the poetic and the Nigerian culture of military oppression. Specific texts examined include Afam Akeh’s This is Poetry as
She Breathes, Abubakar Othman’s Wordsworth Lied, and Olu Oguibe’s I am Bound to this Land by Blood, among several others. Egya is a faculty member of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University,
Nigeria. He has published extensively on the subject of Nigerian literature. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
