Lonely Road, Rescue and Home: Carving a Poetic Path to Calvary

By Jesse Unoh

LONELY ROAD, RESCUE AND HOME is a poetic rendering of the poet-personas gratitude for being a beneficiary of Gods marvellous mercy. Some of the poems trace the pang-filled path of a prodigal son who, at a critical juncture in his life, was guided Home by the extravagant love of his heavenly Father. Some point out the pitfalls that Christians must avoid on the lifelong race to Glory. Others make long plaintive calls to those who have veered off the Straight and Narrow Way, inviting them to return to the fabulous and inexhaustible estate of their Creator.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468557534

Jesse Unoh

JESSE UNOH is a Biase-born lawyer-poet from Itu-Agwagune, a small village on the eastern bank of the Cross River. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2005, following his graduation from the University of Calabar a year earlier. He has practiced creative writing for over a decade and is a poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, essayist and a freelance editor. He is the author of Midnight Angel which won First Runner-Up, Association of Nigerian Authors/Jacaranda Prize for Prose in 2010. Jesse has been recognized for his poetry too, picking up two NKA (University of Calabar) Poet-of-the-Year plaques in 1999 and 2000. Now living in Abuja where he is a Legislative Aide at the National Assembly, this is his maiden individual outing in verse.

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