Birds of Heaven
by Ben Okri. One of Penguin's 60P series, Okri's small volume is one part poetry, one part sermon on the power and religion of words. Poetic and spare, Okri is a writer I've oft seen quoted, but I'd not read any of his work in context before now. This little volume is a perfect pocket, purse or coat volume, great to dip into for a brief aphorism or musing on the power of story. Okri has a gemlike conversational poetic style that I intend to seek out further in longer works.
Read September 2007
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