A poet who served as a cultural ambassador during this war compared the title action to an “ice-block” that “froze your insides” in the poem “You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed.” In an extended concentration camp metaphor, a poem about this war notes how strange it is that “love, in other ways so particular, will pick a corner in that charnel-house” and “coil up there.” An author collected “Air Raid,” “Vultures,” and other poems about this war in a 2012 memoir titled There Was a Country. The aggressors in this war are referred to in all-caps as “ROBBERS” and “EAGLES” in a poem that opens “(with drum accompaniment).” A poet who died during this war addressed the goddess “mother Idoto” in Heavensgate and wrote “Elegy for Alto.” For 10 points, name this war during which Gabriel Okara, Christopher Okigbo, and Chinua Achebe served a breakaway republic. ■END■
ANSWER: Nigerian Civil War [or Biafran War; or Nigerian–Biafran War]
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