... earth, waiting for the rain. In Igbo they serve two important ends. They enable the speaker to give universal status to a special and particular in- cident and they are used to soften the harshness of words and make them more palatable. They are called in Igbo “the palm-oil...

... “continued to fashion poetry—and fashion himself—out of a unique conjuncture of classical, modernist, Yoruba, Igbo, and jazz aesthetics with the English language and print medium, making the contradictions of life as an avowedly modern African writer into an enabling condition for his remarkable work” (151...

... as Judgments of Value,” Yale Journal of Criticism 5 (1992):201-12, together with my “Response” (225-28). Paul H. Fry is professor of English at Yale University. He is author of The Poet’s Calling in the English Ode (igBo), The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory (1983...

... by the combination of everydayness, the cultural codes of Igbo temporal- ity, and the rituals of a high priest. At the same time, this sense of the world is mediated through a narrative style that carries the signs of modernism: the focus on the character’s consciousness...