Description
Chuma Nwokolo’s first collection of poetry was published in 2006, and includes The Ashmolean poems, a series written during his residency at the Ashmolean Museum. It contains 50 poems some of which have become staples at his performances.
Contents:
Shades of Life
1. The Empty Page
2. Lungfish
3. The Perfect Art
4. The Charge of the Life Inconclusive
5. M.V. Benin
6. Nightmare
7. A Tree in Time
8. The Art of Drinking Wine
Shades of Love
9. Woman of Shades
10. Passing No. 9
11. Deathbed Solicitor
12. Yellow Dungarees
13. Love Story
14. A Shirt’s Life
15. Love Lessons
16. Enugu in the Sky
17. Grace
18. The Races are Far Apart
19. Arms and the Child
20. Nightsoilman
21. Seed
22. The Story of Shoe Leather
23. Brother’s Day
24. Crying Blood
25. Endangered Species
26. Creek Crimes
27. For the Mediterranean Dead
28. Penitentiary of Silence
29. Cold Case
30. All in a News Day
31. Bombproofing
Mind Wars
32. Neo-Colonial Mantra
33. Desire
34. Political Correctness
35. Managing Catastrophe
36. They’re Building Sandcastles
37 The Stationary Man
38. Falling
39. There She Hangs
40. Two Exiles
41. Azu Kalia Azu
42. Run run run
The Ashmolean Poems
43. Antiquity in Suburbia
44. The Parish Church at Stonehaven
45. Dim Kaini Kamoye
46. The Creature Longer than a Mile
47. Stone Homunculus
48. Ram
49. Memories of Stone
50. Edge of Extinction
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