In the Kingdom of Songs Author:Tanure Ojaide In the Kingdom of Songs, a harves of many years (1995-2000) Tanure Ojaide brings together related, but different poetic expeditions: "In the Kingdom of Songs," "home Truths," and "When It No Longer Matters Where You Live.". In this trilogy, the poet presents art that defies frontiers. His poems engage as much of the Niger Delta world of Nigeri... more »a as of Spain's Andalucia and elsehwere. Here is the real and surreal foraging of the imaginatio as the poet brings it to play in the emotional and the artistic. With lavish skill and walth of words, Tanure Ojaide paints the "kingdom of songs" where "agonly lives by ectasy, tears by laughter, hate by love, and death by life."
The "Kingdom of Songs," which increasingly becomes aesthetic, human and personal, "cares for fauna and flora and the entire earth" as is trails against exploitation, oppression, and the lack of freedom. It is an experienced artist's canvas of the intricacies of life and the human condiditon. This collection is a matrix of images that flow inexorably in an exhilarating manner into a form of poetic exulatation.« less