Wole Soyinka reads his poem 'Her Joy is Wild'

Описание: Wole Soyinka reads his poem 'Her Joy is Wild.' Reading from Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus Festival, 2012 at the National Poetry Library.

Her Joy is Wild by Wole Soyinka

Her joy is wild, wild
Wave-breaking she proclaims,
Your strong teeth will weaken
If you nibble the rind.

Her strength is wild, wild
Wild as the love that sings -
This is the last-born; give me
A joyful womb to bind.

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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, for "in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence."

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