LEADER 03884nam 22005771 450 001 9910787506403321 005 20230725035949.0 010 $a1-940729-06-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000430245 035 $a(EBL)1399132 035 $a(OCoLC)858764770 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001164976 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11677938 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001164976 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11197456 035 $a(PQKB)11018042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1399132 035 $a(OCoLC)899261147 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31664 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1399132 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10775333 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000430245 100 $a20091111d2010 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOf the deepest shadows & the prisons of fire /$fChimalum Nwankwo 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cAfrican Heritage Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (200 p.) 300 $aPoems. 311 $a0-9790858-2-9 327 $a""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Poets Preface""; ""Prayers""; ""Spirit of all Grammar""; ""Heart of the Moon and Sun""; ""Fire and the Deep Shadows""; ""Prisons of Fire""; ""Of the Deepest Shadows""; ""Earth Call""; ""Calling the Night""; ""Fire""; ""The War""; ""Mongers Anthem""; ""Memory Poem""; ""Comrade""; ""The Dog Barks for You""; ""Scared Spaces""; ""Ibo Landing""; ""Special Hearts""; ""Walking into the Sea""; ""When the Soul Train Parks""; ""Memorial Poem""; ""Silent Steps""; ""The Heart of 46664"" 327 $a""Ancestral Whispers and a Farm of Flowers""""Warrior Hearts""; ""The Covenant""; ""Invocation""; ""Desert Wind""; ""No Sunset for Heroes""; ""Simple Steps""; ""Burning Bush""; ""The Crucifixion""; ""Master of Fires""; ""Looking Back in Anger, Dear Patrice""; ""What the Sea Washes Back""; ""Squints from the Prison in the Heart""; ""From a Competing God: The Sharks are not There""; ""Of Tales and Broken Columns""; ""King David Hotel""; ""Hearts in the Wilderness""; ""Song of the Unknown Soldier""; ""Women of Iraq""; ""American Woman""; ""Twisted Hearts""; ""Masks""; ""Mary Mary"" 327 $a""Dog of Faeces""""Lady of Plastic, Lady of Iron""; ""To Kill a Queen""; ""Woman at the Gate""; ""The Coven""; ""Neutral One""; ""The Worlds We Make""; ""In the Wind's Breath""; ""Of Love Benighted""; ""A Wedding Memory""; ""Slouching to Beat a Wife""; ""Agamevu""; ""Questions""; ""Why Should I?""; ""Questions""; ""Quick Tongue of Today""; ""Rumors of Death""; ""Malindidzimu""; ""Milindidzimu""; ""Longing for Home""; ""The Elders are Dead""; ""The House of the Chief""; ""Many Mansions""; ""The Great River Calls Me""; ""Orbit of Light""; ""Bird of Distances""; ""Back Cover"" 330 $aOf the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire is a literary canvas of leaders who have affected humanity in very serious and unquestionable ways. The core of this artistic engagement is the destiny of the black world. There are tangential departures into territories with crises the world cannot afford to ignore. The poet visits each leader, living or dead, with equal passion. His curious brush is delicate, ecstatic, melancholic or even celebratory depending on what image or circumstance he pans into view. This corpus comes with the characteristic anguish and tenderness of a very sensitive and 606 $aNigerian poetry 606 $aNigerian fiction 615 0$aNigerian poetry. 615 0$aNigerian fiction. 676 $a821.92 700 $aNwankwo$b Chimalum Moses$f1949-$01529037 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787506403321 996 $aOf the deepest shadows & the prisons of fire$93773049 997 $aUNINA