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02530aam a2200361 4500 001 098FA78CC48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230317010022 008 211110s2021 mau 000 p eng d 020 $a 9781737160335 020 $a 1737160331 035 $a (OCoLC)1284982446 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d GZQ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a f-nr--- 100 1 $a Osundare, Niyi, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Green : $b sighs of our ailing planet / $c Niyi Osundare. 264 1 $a Boston : $b Black Widow Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 118 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Black Widow Press modern poetry series 520 $a Niyi Osundare's latest book of poems, Green: Sighs Of Our Ailing Planet, is a critical pastoral of poems concerning the environment around the world--A poet of renown who has travelled and given performances in many parts of the world, he has felt and tried to put into words what he has felt in what he has seen-from the Amazon to the deserts of North Africa to his home country of Nigeria. For him it was the nature speaking to him and through him, pleading and imploring...but still beautiful? Lushness of destruction, transmuted from a nature endangered....an accessible plea from nature through Osundare's words. A book relevant and hopeful for people to stop and reflect on the endangered beauty of all of nature. In the words of Niyi Osundare: Of all my 20-something books of poetry, none has confronted me with a more challenging combination of urgency of content and complexity of execution than this new one. I daresay the existential imperative of its content has been responsible for the pain that came with its composition and the uneasy relief I now feel upon its completion. There is something deeply spiritual, almost religious, about the mission and the message of the poems, and the many ways they have turned out to be denizens of that vital interface between the ecological and the cosmic 500 $a Poems 650 0 $a Climatic changes $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Nature $v Poetry. 650 7 $a Climatic changes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864229 650 7 $a Nature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034561 651 0 $a Nigeria $v Poetry. 651 7 $a Nigeria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205229 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423828 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Black Widow Press modern poetry series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024648.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=098FA78CC48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search