March 2019

How to Love a Woman Forever - A Review of Mark Nwagwu's Time Came Upon Me and Other Poems

Mark Nwagwu’s Time Came Upon Me and Other Poems: How to Love a Woman Forever

Title of Book: Time Came Upon Me and Other Poems

Author: Mark Nwagwu

Publisher: Bookbuilders, Ibadan

Year of Publication: 2019

Pages: 70

Price: Not stated

Reviewer: Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

Wayfarer, do you hear me now? (for Pius Adebola Adesanmi)

Dear Payo,

when it hurts, that you do not feel the hurt

that you stoke in the hurt,

that you are the vigil of hurt.

It’s been a week now I have not heard from you.

Raji has been visiting professor and poet to Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Universities of California at Riverside and Irvine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Stockholms University, Sweden, Cambridge University, UK, and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He was African editor of Drumvoices Revue – Journal of Contemporary Arts and Literature (1999-2010). His seminal publication in cultural theory and practice is entitled Playful Blasphemies: Postproverbials as Archetypes of Modernity in Yoruba Culture(2012).

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