I Am but a Fragment of Oforula

By Chidi Uzoma

I am but a fragment of Oforula completes a trilogy of poetry books that started with Lemons of Oforula and later Stagioni di Oforula. The poems in this collection like the ones preceding them are richly endowed in image and language, borrowing widely from expressions in his Nigerian Igbo language. The themes are as varied as in a lifes journey, of the vicissitudes of an immigrant cast away from his abode, and yet not as distant and with recollections of the beauties and pains of his Africa, for example, in the poems dedicated to countrymen and Nobel-Laureate Wole Soyinka and Ken Saro-Wiwa. The poems divided into three parts, also speak on nature and spirituality, where the poet revels in his analysis of our time, and echoes of journeys through some African and European cities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 11, 2008
• ISBN: 9781462827466

Chidi Uzoma

Chidi Uzoma was born at Port Harcourt, Nigeria and is an architect by training. He has published three collections of poems: Lemons of Oforula, Seasons of Oforula and I am but a Fragment of Oforula. His poems have appeared in many Italian literary journals and in different anthologies. He lives in Rome.

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Contents

PART I

ISLAND OF ME

Autumn Sandwich

No Man to Pet

Life

Fragments

The Soul

Another Life

The Road

Log on

Island of Me

Still I Move on

To Hike the Rail

Celestial Stars

Call of Dew

PART II

SAVANNAH LAND

Savannah Land

Wither not . . .

Song of Oforula

Be Blest

Eagles

Figments and what . . .

For Ezico

Soldier

Ndiegoro Falling

Enyimba

Lagos

Abuja

Jos

Owerri

Calabar

I am but a Fragment of Oforula

PART III

FOUNTAIN BEATS

For My Mother

For My Father

Bamako

For Moriba Sissoko

This Day

PART IV

CROSSROADS

Passionflowers

How

A Prayer

Now that I am Home

Yesterday

Moscow Haiku

Magliana Haiku

in memory of my grandparents

Ihiala Isaac and Adaku Mary Onyechere