News at Eleven: I did not know that anybody of substance contradicted me

except Professor Osundare. He is a seasoned academic and also another well-respected scholar-poet. Osundare was nuanced in his reaction. He responded like one familiar with what we all call the Critical Tradition. As for my suggestion of plagiarism, kindly look at these two poems, and if you have any godliness in you, tell the world what you see, truthfully. Here is part of a poem, "For You," written in the 1920s by the American poet, Carl Sandburg: "The peace of great doors be for you./Wait at the knobs, at the panel oblongs./Wait for the great hinges.//The peace of great churches be for you./Where the players of loft pipe organs/Practice old lovely fragments, alone//The peace of great books be for you,/Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,/Bleach of the light of years held in leather.//The peace of great prairies be for you./Listen among windplayers in cornfields./The wind learning over its oldest music."

from Next: Chimalum Nwankwo, poet of the aerial zone

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