{"product_id":"one-day-i-will-dare-to-raise-my-middle-finger","title":"One Day I Will Dare To Raise My Middle Finger","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis slim volume of thirty-three poems, which was longlisted for the Nigeria NLNG Prize for Literature in 2017, is bound thematically by the three-ply cord of death, gloom and positive self-deception. Peering through the anguished eyes of the persona in the poems, the reader finds a world smeared with melancholy. And since such reality can be daunting, a reasonable diversion is to set up an alternative reality, even one that is unrealistically optimistic.\u003cspan id=\"more-1535\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first poem paints a very grim picture of the state of humans. Trapped in the vicious cycle ‘of birth and\/ of chaos and\/ of death’, the persona longs for a future in which death’s bluff will be called, vowing that:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e… one day\u003cbr\u003eI’ll dare—yes, I’ll dare, one day\u003cbr\u003eto raise my middle finger\u003cbr\u003eat the stork and the reaper!\u003cbr\u003e(‘Pieces of me in every crib and in every coffin’, p 11).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wine Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47635837681917,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"NGN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2545\/5474\/files\/IMG-20260602-WA0015.jpg?v=1780411861","url":"https:\/\/pagebookstore.com\/products\/one-day-i-will-dare-to-raise-my-middle-finger","provider":"PAGE Book Connoisseurs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}