Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known [signed] [first edition]

First collection of poems for ten years by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist. Many of these poems were written whilst Soyinka was in enforced travel after a price was placed on his head by Sani Abacha, the Nigerian dictator, and thus address themes of journey and exile. "One of the liveliest, most exciting writers in the world today."-The New York Times