Toil and delivery : poems / by Bill F. Ndi.

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Bill NDI's Toil and Delivery can be as playful and loaded as the clues in a cryptic crossword puzzle, which is to say that they are marked by a strange, energetic hybridity. They occupy a dynamic space between nursery rhyme and visionary Romantic verse, between the colloquial and the archaic, between postmodernity and anachronism. They are local and global, political and personal, Western and non-Western. With experiences traversing both Africa and the West, Bill F. NDI is one of those poets who gives meaning to the word globalization. He embraces poetry as a material act in a troubled world, with poetry's power conveyed with typical irony.

Machine generated contents note: Tyro -- Sander & Christer -- Paying The Price Thrice To Rice -- Darkness -- Time (6758576) -- Spectacles8 -- Broken Bond -- What Does It Matter? -- Like all the others -- Rags to Rugs -- Strong, Strong Weak -- Childhood Rain Showers -- Fruits of Bliss -- Childless Father Hopes -- Tribute to Every Mother -- Underground Paris -- Born Free Freeborn -- Boxing Ring -- Sleepless Rest -- Tourist Extraordinaire! -- Commemoration -- Our Awe Objects -- Prurience -- Vomit -- Messenger -- Bob Down That Joy (Beyond The Ordinary) -- Bitch Song -- I Wonder -- Voice Of A Resting Soul -- Way To Go -- Captain Salutes All -- Unseen -- In Search For It -- Coming Of Ash -- Infidelity Is Not Woman -- Return Home -- For Better & -- Broomstick -- Madman Said -- Biography -- Councilors: Nonform -- Mailman -- My Key -- Acumen -- Mitigation (Plea by a marooned Pen) -- Heroic Enterprise (Commission) -- Dirge -- Barren Days -- Sea Faring -- Calm Down -- Rivulet -- Destiny -- Morpheus -- Caller -- Irrevocable Voice -- Tablets Of Life -- For Survival -- Want -- Assets -- Granny From A Deep Slumber -- First And Last Space -- Egg Destruction -- On Her Nativity -- Chastisement -- Equality -- Feast -- Delirium -- Autobiography -- Becoming A Waif -- Nost Algia -- Ginners -- Change -- Chase of The Triumphant -- Dying '85 -- Blight -- Urchin -- Plants' Call The Hidden Name -- Demise's Residence -- Minerva's Grave -- How it got lost -- Proselytist -- Optimists -- Seven Over All -- Scullery -- Requiem -- Heart Beats -- My Letter -- Seeing From The Other Side.

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