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    Heart Songs
    Heart Songs
    Heart Songs
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    Heart Songs

    By Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

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    Winner of the Winner, ANA/Cadbury Prize, 2009, Heart Songs, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo s first collection of poems, reveals the hidden poetic mind of a writer who had previously worked extensively and excelled as a novelist. At one level. the poems read like the products of a souls just out of a certain prison. They break the barriers of the unity of thought that governs the writing of a novel, as Adimora-Ezeigbo is at home with subjects as varies as power, love, culture, gender, philosophy and crime in this collection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKraft Books
    Release dateDec 29, 2009
    ISBN9789789182152
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