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The Bridge Selection: Poems for the Road
Poetry Monthly Press &
Eastern Light Publishers
Paperback, 90 pages.
ISBN 978-1905126460
"In The Bridge Selection,
Azuonye demonstrates that as a human being and as a poet he is not an
emotional coward as he deals with issues of Liberty, Biafra, Love,
Nigeria, Death, Exile, Faith and Hope...In most of this work, I feel a
melancholy tinged with defiance. Proud of his heritage, yet not
uncritical of it, the poet writes passionate dirges, elegies, love
verses and lyricised protests against war and violence"
- Uche Nduka (author of Heart's Field)
Reviews:
The Bridge Selection is a rippling darkling delightful read from a big
warm heart to a cold unfeeling world. I've enjoyed doing time in it.
- Austyn Njoku (author of Scents of Dawn)
Nnorom Azuonye looks at the human condition through the prism of Africa,
thus using at the same time the eyes of an insider and an
outsider...Definitely a disturbing, unforgettable, thought-provoking
read.
- New Hope International review by John Francis Haines
(author of Other Places, Other Times)
Nnorom Azuonye’s second poetry collection, A Bridge Selection, is
characterized by a passionate intensity which imbues his lines with
lyrical tenderness and defiant hope...The poems in A Bridge Selection
plumb the depths of varied human emotions traversing different emotional
trajectories and planes...Whether writing about war; the American
carnage in Iraq, the collateral damage from the war...or about
abortion...despair never manages to eclipse hope...
- Toni Kan (author of When A Dream Lingers Too Long)
Price: £5.95
Availability:
Eastern Light Store
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"Reading a poem should not be an ordeal. Its appeal is inherent
in its simplicity. This simplicity is what I have always
attempted to achieve...I am not a classicist. I am an everyday,
every person's poet."
- Nnorom
Azuonye (Preface to
Letter to God and Other Poems) |
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