Tigress at Full Moon By OBIWU
Issued: | 2012 | Format: | Paperback | ISBN: | 978-0-9790858-4-0 | Price: | $14.95
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These poems are the embodiment of immortal imagination impregnated with the
spirit of creativity they chant us to see the vision and imagine ourselves in it. On the
vernacular poems I only wish I could hear and feel the cadences of a language which
is so efficient in its structure, according to Michael Echeruo, 'that some say it was fi rst
spoken in Eden.' This Tigress' roar is a roar to which we should pay close attention."
- ROGER W. HECHT, Assistant Professor Department of English SUNY,
College at Oneonta, NY
"In this collection the poems are not just ... about mundane action and destruction, but
of the infinite beauty and eternal repose which is the future. This is a triumph of poetic
wish fulfillment... the stuff [of which the] mythic imagination is made."
- AFAM EBEOGU, Professor of English Abia State University Uturu-Okigwe, Nigeria
"Obiwu's work ... awakes the imagination by creating a mythical world in which the
figures of romantic legend live their enchanted lives. It reclaims and vivifies the
world of daily routine by renewing our grasp of its underlying meanings."
-PROFESSOR BEN OBUMSELU, Senior Personal Assistant
Anambra State Governor Anambra State, Nigeria
About the author:
OBIWU received his Ph.D. (with distinction) in English with emphasis
on Critical Th eory from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York and
wrote his dissertation on In the Name of the Father: Lacanian Reading
of Four White South African Writers. Tigress at Full Moon is his second
volume of poetry since Rituals of the Sun (1992). Obiwu's other
publications have been widely acclaimed. He won the Donatus Nwoga
Prize for Literary Criticism in Poetry (2009) with his essay on
"The Ecopoetics of Christopher Okigbo and Ezra Pound." He was a fellow of the
Presidential Leadership Institute, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio (2011) and
a fellow of the International School of Th eory in the Humanities (1998). His other
awards include the Charanjit Rangi Leadership Award for Faculty Professional Excellence
from Central State University (2008) and the Resolution Recognition (No. 07-4-12-31)
from the Greene County Board of Commissioners of Ohio (2007). Obiwu teaches English
in the Department of Humanities, Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.
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