An Optical Spectrometer of Wole Soyinka’s “Telephone Conversation” “Telephone Conversation” is a poem written by Wole Soyinka, a renowned poet, playwright, author, political activist and social critic. Published initially in the collection Modern Poetry from Africa (1963), the poem was ...
December 2013. I was in the grocery store when my brother Stephen called. I listened to the message and I called him back immediately. The tone of his voice and the fact of the call let me know that something was wrong because in recent years my brother had become very bad at making ...