Article: Make It Sing & Other Poems.(Review)

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. Make It Sing & Other Poems. Nairobi. East African Educational Publishers (African Books Collective, distr.). 1998. xii + 112 pages. [pound]4.25/ $7.95. ISBN 9966-46-647-9.

Make It Sing & Other Poems is a welcome addition-the twelfth-in the EAEP's Poets of Africa series. (A review of its predecessor in this series, Taban lo Liyong's Words That Melt a Mountain, appears in WLT 71:3 [Summer 1997], p. 641.) Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye's volume reminds us that while she has seven novels to her credit, including the award- winning Coming to Birth, she is at heart a poet, with poetic instincts. Because these are truly East African poems, and because ...

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