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Okri, Ben (1959– ), Nigerian novelist, poet, and essayist, was born on is two volumes of poetry, An African Elegy (1992) and Mental Fight (1999), an allegorical. Mental Fight book. Read 5 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This epic poem is intended as a celebration of humanity's achievements Ben Okri is Patron of Mental Fight Club. His epic poem, Mental Fight is an inspirational hymn to overcoming our mind's capacity for destruction and to create new Mar 22, 2012 - Its author, Ben Okri, describes the poem as an anti?spell for the 21st century, and prefaces it with immortalised in the hymn Jerusalem: 'I will not cease from Mental Fight, nor shall the Sword This content is currently only available as a PDF By entitling one of his anthologies of poetry Mental Fight, Ben Okri succinctly acknowledges the Romantic poet William Blake as a source of inspiration. These. Mental Fight [Okri, Ben] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Mental Fight. Drawing principally from Mental Fight and Jerusalem, this article explores the ways in which both Ben Okri and William Blake prophesy the redemption of Faisal Albert-Ludwig AIME CESAIRE AND BEN OKRI Garba Uni. engage a debate with contemporary Nigerian author Ben Okri (focussing on “Mental Fight”). To attempt to describe Ben Okri's writing seems almost to miss the point of his writing. In his epic poem Mental Fight, published at the Millennium, Okri calls