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CIVILIAN AND SOLDIER by WOLE SOYINKA

First Line: MY APPARITION ROSE FROM THE FALL OF LEAD
Last Line: WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT?
Subject(s): NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR; SOLDIERS;

Poem Sources:

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN AFRICAN POETRY. EDITED BY GERALD MOORE AND ULLI BEIER. 3RD EDITION.
  MOORE, GERALD (ED.)
  (1984)
 
AGAINST FORGETTING; TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY OF WITNESS.
  FORCHE, CAROLYN (ED.)
  (1993)
 
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN AFRICAN POETRY. EDITED BY GERALD MOORE AND ULLI BEIER. 4TH EDITION.
  MOORE, GERALD (ED.)
  (1998)
 



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