Lucidity of Absurdity Olumide Olaniyan - Paperback

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, vivid imagery and strikingly resonant metaphors, Olaniyan’s poems both encapsulate and illuminate quotidian reality with such clarity, such manifest authenticity, and such delightfully homespun witticisms that Plato would certainly make an exception for this poet. Poem after poem, the reader is regaled with a charmingly masterful unraveling of the labyrinthine complexity of the human condition. The felicitous wordage of the poems, the spellbinding mellifluousness of their rhythm, and the sheer infectious stylistic gusto of the writer conspire to transport the reader to dizzyingly ethereal heights from where he never wants to descend. Lucidity of Absurdity is, in sum, a poetic tour de force that is sure to entrance the soul. It is highly recommended to all lovers of the creative enterprise.