two poems

by Guest Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:32 pm

older has his literature test tomorrow. i picked up his book of poems. all white authors; no indian but one black -- wole sonyinka, the nob. laureate. i asked him his favourite poems in the anthology. he selected only two: i'm getting old now by robert kroctsch and telephone conversation by wole sonyinka as next in an order of priority. i read both poems. this line by wole soyinka hit hard:

Facially, I am brunette, but, madam, you should see
The rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles of my feet
Are a peroxide blond.

i'm getting old now by robert kroctsch

http://aura.edu.in/read/icse/icse-12/Starlight/original/page-088.html

telephone conversation by wole sonyinka

http://lit205a.blogspot.in/2008/01/week-10-telephone-conversation-by-wole.html

by charvaka Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:58 pm

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:older has his literature test tomorrow. i picked up his book of poems. all white authors; no indian but one black -- wole sonyinka, the nob. laureate. i asked him his favourite poems in the anthology. he selected only two: i'm getting old now by robert kroctsch and telephone conversation by wole sonyinka as next in an order of priority. i read both poems. this line by wole soyinka hit hard:

Facially, I am brunette, but, madam, you should see
The rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles of my feet
Are a peroxide blond.

i'm getting old now by robert kroctsch

http://aura.edu.in/read/icse/icse-12/Starlight/original/page-088.html

telephone conversation by wole sonyinka

http://lit205a.blogspot.in/2008/01/week-10-telephone-conversation-by-wole.html

The Soyinka poem is awesome... I read it almost 20 years ago, but still remember the phrases "silenced transmission of pressurized good-breeding" and "red booth, red pillar box, red double-tiered omnibus squelching tar".

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