num_pages: 112
description: The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman  the power of her ties to family, husband and her "adopted" country, Nigeria  as well as the illumination of her own soul and that of the narrator's) fills the reader with both sorrow and wonder. It is an instructive tale for our age  its vision of the individual will and imagination resisting the madness of politics and the destruction of war is singular and profound. (Description by Carol Muske-Dukes)
language: English
title: Daphne's Lot
titlecomplete: Daphne's Lot
genres: Poetry, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 42
publisher: Red Hen Press