The thrust of Akimbo in Limbo is that only those who do not stand with arms akimbo when they are confronted with everyday human travails that we sometimes vainly attribute to nature will conquer and decide their tomorrow. Nature itself is kind. It can also be vengeful because of its plunde..
In Plato’s Republic, poets are to be ostracized because poetry is putatively an inauthentic simulacrum of reality. But in powerful, inspired, and evocative verses, Olumide Olaniyan’s Lucidity of Absurdity explodes the Platonic distrust of the veridical capacities of poetic imagination. With clear, v..