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| Naked Testimonies |
| By Toyin Adewale-Gabriel |
| ISBN 1856571076 |
| SERIES Classic African Writing |
| Paperback 80 pages |
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| Published 12 July 2006 |
| UK Price £7.95 Order from amazon.co.uk |
| US Price $13.95 Order from amazon.com |
Toyin Adewale-Gabriel's poetry lays a bold claim to being distinctive in the sprawling terrain of new Nigerian poetry, practised mainly by the generation born in the intemperate 1960s. In a ferment marked by a shrill but justified anger, Adewale Gabriel internalises and intensifies the public experience, and serves it to her audience in a way that they too can see their varied emotions clearly mirrored. In "Naked Testimonies", she displays an uncanny confidence, picking her steps with ease as much with the sensuous and spiritual as the public and aesthetic - qualities that earned "Testimonies" an Honorable Mention in the 1995 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) poetry awards. Reading the poems here, one is struck by a quiet eruption of energy, evocative of the calmness of a river that belies the immense energy underneath. |
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