Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Itinerariesof African Ecocriticism and Environmental Transformations in African Literature
- Literary Totemism and its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho’s Literary Bees
- Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s David Mogo, Godhunter and ‘the end of the world as we know it’
- Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a ‘Modernizing’ City in Nigerian Poetry
- Poetic Style and Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo’s Poems
- Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow
- Local Collisions: Oil on Water, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and the Politics of Form
- ‘It is the Writer’s Place to Stand with the Oppressed’: Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong’s Blot on the Landscape and The Tears of the Earth
- Black Atlantic Futurism, Toxic Discourses and Decolonizing the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix
- Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor
- INTERVIEW
- LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
- TRIBUTE
- REVIEWS
‘Art Pub’ / ‘City Life’ (2 Poems)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Itinerariesof African Ecocriticism and Environmental Transformations in African Literature
- Literary Totemism and its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho’s Literary Bees
- Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s David Mogo, Godhunter and ‘the end of the world as we know it’
- Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a ‘Modernizing’ City in Nigerian Poetry
- Poetic Style and Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo’s Poems
- Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow
- Local Collisions: Oil on Water, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and the Politics of Form
- ‘It is the Writer’s Place to Stand with the Oppressed’: Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong’s Blot on the Landscape and The Tears of the Earth
- Black Atlantic Futurism, Toxic Discourses and Decolonizing the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix
- Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor
- INTERVIEW
- LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
- TRIBUTE
- REVIEWS
Summary
ART PUB
Art's Bar – a tavern
That serves pizza and beer
With a furbishing of crimson, yellow and gold.
It has a hold on clients that
Bustle like bees and clamor
Of people having a good time.
Behind the door that says
Employees only
Is a world of clinking spoons
And clanging pots.
On this side of the door
I see wrinkled faces like crinkled fries
Along with those who are
Absent of those lines that
Reflect time.
That's Art's Bar – a tavern
That serves pizza and beer
CITY LIFE
We live in a jungle of concrete and steel
Malls that display
What we want, what we think.
But,
No place to sit without the
Sounds of calamity and strife.
Too much investment in the hustle
With no gain in return
Preoccupied with tensions and worries
Of what tomorrow may bring.
It has taken from us,
The precious element of time
That rare gem that takes a
Lifetime to find.
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- ALT 38 Environmental TransformationsAfrican Literature Today, pp. 157 - 158Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020