| ISBN | 9789956558438 |
| Pages | 104 |
| Dimensions | 203 x 127 mm |
| Published | 2009 |
| Publisher | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon |
| Format | Paperback |
Musings On Ars Poetica
Poetic Reflections on the Poet and Poetry in Verse
by Bill F. Ndi
A literary monument erected by a poet for poets with a vision for poetry as a special annunciation and the poet as a seer, spokesperson, recorder, analyst, adjudicator and advocate with poetic vision and poetic understanding. Bill Ndi, the poet has the rare gift of slipping into the self and psyche of his society to empty the dark depths where the treasures of burden and sadness are hidden. He empties and exposes them to the world to see how even personal repression of feelings by far outweighs those imposed throughout History by tyrants. It is above all, his greatest task of filling these depths with the joys and expectations of the society. This objective stance by the poet places him above the fanatic whose subjectivity pushes the world adrift and makes of the poet a universal man of peace.
Review
“Bill’s poetic vision is deeply political, with a determination to retain a sense of the power and freshness of innocence – the possibility, indeed, of a higher form of innocence and freshness of vision, of a kind which need not necessarily die with the onset of knowledge and adult understanding. Bill’s poetry suggest a strong influence (though in verse that is altogether modern, experimental in form, socially well-informed, culturally inclusive in an extraordinary measure and thoroughly politically open-eyed) of the early phase of English Romanticism, Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads and indeed, the Immortality ode.”