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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, (10[1])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,” (-5[1])and other poems (-5[1])about this war in a 2012 memoir titled There Was (10[1])a Country. (10[2])The (10[1])aggressors in this war (10[1])are referred to in all-caps (10[1])as “ROBBERS” (10[2])and (-5[1])“EAGLES” (10[1])in a poem that opens (10[1]-5[1])“(with drum (10[1])accompaniment).” (10[1])A poet who died during this war addressed (10[1])the (10[1])goddess “mother Idoto” in Heavensgate (10[1])and wrote “Elegy (10[1])for Alto.” For 10 points, name this war during which Gabriel Okara, Christopher Okigbo, (10[1])and (10[2])Chinua (10[2])Achebe served a (10[1])breakaway (10[1])republic. ■END■

ANSWER: Nigerian Civil War [or Biafran War; or ​​Nigerian–Biafran War]
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