Invoking the warrior spirit : New and selected poems / Tanure Ojaide.

Message of Lust -- Children of Iroko -- What I Carry Along -- For Chris Okigbo -- February 1st Offering -- The Curse -- Labyrinths of the Delta -- Death of the Warrior -- For My Child in Hospital -- A Verdict of Stone -- Beneath the Skin -- I am Going to be Rich -- We Keep Watch Over Them -- No Prescription Cures A Country Nobody Loves -- Today's Pain -- Consolation -- Songs for Ita -- The Battle -- Future Gods -- London -- Naked Words -- Rites of Increase -- The Example of the Snake -- Launching Our Community Development Fund -- I Be Somebody -- The Hawk Prays for Peace -- I am a Bird -- Firestorm -- The Fate of Vultures -- Players -- When Tomorrow Is Too Long -- The Praisename -- Song for My Land -- Where Everybody Is King -- Where the Nightmare Beings -- Two Pieces, After a Dream -- For Our Own Reasons -- Waking -- You Know Why -- Kwanza -- The Daydream of Ants -- The Power of Victims -- Death Trail -- Beauty Pageant -- At the Aerobic Class --

On the World Summit for Children at the United Nations, 1990 -- To Aridon -- From The Abibiman Saga -- State Executive -- Homage: To Idiagbon -- Cannons for the Brave -- The Crow's Gift -- Enter My Dream -- Sankofa -- Aftermath -- from Edon: Forbidden Secrets -- Akua-ba -- Mornings -- School Call -- Jubilation Drum -- Amulets -- The Life Belt -- Rekindled Fires -- Snapshots on a Wooded Trail -- At Muir Woods -- New Rivers -- Backside -- Dialects of Dialogue -- Three Questions -- At the Barber's Mercy -- One Day -- Ughoton -- Agbon -- Visiting Home -- Delta Blues -- Elegy for Nine Warriros -- Waiting for the Next World -- My Townsman in the Army -- Witness the Fire.