Poems of Dennis Brutus

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Publisher : UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
ISBN 13 : 9781893311503
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Poems of Dennis Brutus written by and published by UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to Martha

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Publisher : London : Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Martha written by Dennis Brutus and published by London : Heinemann. This book was released on 1968 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stubborn Hope

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stubborn Hope written by Dennis Brutus and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book China Poems written by Dennis Brutus and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dennis Brutus Tapes

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010342
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Dennis Brutus Tapes written by Dennis Brutus and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to give valuable insights into Brutus's life and works. Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) is known internationally as a South African poet, anti-apartheid activist and campaigner for human rights and the release of political prisoners. His literary works include Sirens Knuckles Boots (1963), Letters to Martha, and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), A Simple Lust (1973), and Stubborn Hope (1978). When Dennis Brutus was a Visiting Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in 1974-75, he recorded on tape a series of reflections on his life and career. In addition, he frequently responded to questions about his poetry and political activities put to him by students and faculty in formal and informal interviews that were also captured on tape. Transcripts of a selection of these tapes, as well as reprints of two interviews recorded earlier, are reproduced here in order to put on record fragments of the autobiography of a remarkable man who lived in extraordinary times and managed to leave his mark on the land and literature of South Africa. Brutus was an effective anti-apartheid campaigner who succeeded in getting South Africa excluded from the Olympics. His opposition to racial discrimination in sports led to his arrest, banning, and imprisonment on Robben Island. Upon release, he left South Africa and lived most of the rest of his life in exile, where he continued his political work and simultaneously earned an international reputation as a poet who often sang of his love for his country. The tapes are edited by Bernth Lindfors who has added an Introduction and a transcript of a 1970 interview as well as other transcripts of lectures and discussions. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, The University of Texas at Austin, and founding editor of Research in AfricanLiteratures. He has written and edited numerous books on African literature, including Folklore in Nigerian Literature (1973), Popular Literatures in Africa (1991), Africans on Stage (1999), Early Soyinka (2008), and Early Achebe (2009).

Still the Sirens

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Still the Sirens written by Dennis Brutus and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dennis Brutus

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Publisher : BestRed
ISBN 13 : 9781928246343
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Dennis Brutus written by Tyrone August and published by BestRed. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "South African poet and political activist Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) wrote poetry of the most exquisite lyrical beauty and intense power. And through his various political activities, he played a uniquely significant role in mobilising and intensifying opposition to injustice and oppression - initially in South Africa, but later throughout the rest of the world as well. This book focuses on the life of Dennis Brutus in South Africa from his childhood until he went into exile on an exit permit in 1966. It is also an attempt to acknowledge Brutus' literary and political work and, in a sense, to reintroduce Brutus to South Africa. This book places his own voice at the centre of his life story. It is told primarily in his own words - through newspaper and journal articles, tape recordings, interviews, speeches, court records and correspondence. It draws extensively on archival material not yet available in the public domain, as well as on interviews with several people who interacted with Brutus during his early years in South Africa. In particular, it examines his participation in some of the most influential organisations of his time, including the Teachers' League of South Africa, the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department movement and the Coloured National Convention, the Co-ordinating Committee for International Recognition in Sport, the South African Sports Association and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee, which all campaigned against racism in South African sport. Brutus left behind an important legacy in literature involvement, in community affairs and politics in as well."--Book Depository description.

FonTomFrom

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042012738
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book FonTomFrom written by Kofi Anyidoho and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles, annotated filmography, interviews, creative writing, and book reviews.

Sirens, Knuckles, Boots

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Sirens, Knuckles, Boots written by Dennis Brutus and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetry & Protest

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Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 9781931859226
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Poetry & Protest written by Aisha Karim and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We in South Africa needed the support of the international community in our efforts to end the vicious system of racial oppression called apartheid. We had to have eloquent advocates to tell the world our story and persuade it to come to our assistance. . . . We had none more articulate and with all the credibility and integrity so indispensable than Dennis Brutus to plead our cause. He was quite outstanding, and we South Africans owe an immense debt of gratitude."--Archbishop Desmond Tutu "Dennis Brutus stands as a tribune of the dispossessed. His willingness to speak out on all cases of injustice and side with the oppressed makes him the type of person we all wish to emulate. His perseverance, dedication, and eloquence have made him not only a hero for the South African freedom struggle, but for all those who struggle for social justice."--Bill Fletcher, TransAfrica Forum This vital original collection of interviews, poetry, and essays of the much-loved anti-apartheid leader is the first book of its kind to bring together the full, forceful range of his work. Brutus, imprisoned along with Nelson Mandela, is known worldwide for his unparalleled eloquence as an opponent of the apartheid South African regime. Since its fall, he has been a voice for justice and humanity, speaking and writing extensively on issues of debt, poverty, war, racism, and neoliberalism. Dennis Brutus is a lifelong human rights activist and poet. He was imprisoned with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island in South Africa and became an eloquent spokesperson for the anti-apartheid movement. He currently teaches African studies and literature at the University of Pittsburgh. Lee Sustar has written extensively on the global justice and labor movements for numerous publications. He is a member of the National Writers Union and lives in Chicago, Illinois.

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679741151
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry written by J. D. McClatchy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-06-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott

Stubborn Hope

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Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780435902087
Total Pages : 97 pages
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Download or read book Stubborn Hope written by Dennis Brutus and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of the poems contained in this volume were written after the poet's exile from South Africa in 1966. By the author of A Simple Lust.

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813179904
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book {#289-128} written by Randall Horton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this haunting collection. Three sections—{#289-128} Property of the State, {#289-128} Poet-in-Residence (Cell 23), and {#289-128} Poet in New York—frame the countless ways in which the narrator's body and life are socially and legally rendered by the state even as the act of poetry helps him reclaim an identity during imprisonment. These poems address the prison industrial complex, the carceral state, the criminal justice system, racism, violence, love, resilience, hope, and despair while exploring the idea of freedom in a cell. In the tradition of Dennis Brutus's Letters to Martha, Wole Soyinka's A Shuttle in the Crypt, and Etheridge Knight's The Essential Etheridge Knight, {#289-128} challenges the language of incarceration—especially the ways in which it reinforces stigmas and stereotypes. Though {#289-128} refuses to be defined as a felon, this collection viscerally details the dehumanizing effects of prison, which linger long after release. It also illuminates the ways in which we all are relegated to cells or boundaries, whether we want to acknowledge it or not.

The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English

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Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English written by Adewale Maja-Pearce and published by Heinemann International Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.

Dennis Brutus' Poetics of Revolt

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527509486
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Dennis Brutus' Poetics of Revolt written by Eunice Ngongkum and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a refreshing and innovative reading of Dennis Brutus’ poetry, underlining its concern for suffering humanity in the apartheid context and beyond. Through a cogent critical analysis of the poetry from a multifaceted perspective, the work brings to the fore the different motifs, strategies and artistry with which Brutus succeeds in initiating revolt through art. It explains how the poet’s engagement with the poetics of place, apartheid laws, police brutality, questions of travel and language foregrounds these as tropes or metaphors for reinforcing the despicable apartheid image and influencing popular revolt against the system.

We Have Crossed Many Rivers

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 978842287X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book We Have Crossed Many Rivers written by Dike Okoro and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the poets in this anthology display rootedness in, and preoccupation with, the discourses of identity and political freedom. At the same time, they engage the more contemporary themes of human and economic rights, governance, the natural environment, love, family and generational relations representative of the African continent. Poems from Tanure Ojaide, Yewande Omotoso, Reesom Haile and Frank Chipasula are inlcluded and in all there are contributions from 68 poets.

Echoes of the Sunbird

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Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of the Sunbird written by Donald Burness and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a broad overview of the work of seven of Africa's leading poets. Five of them have received international recognition: Niyi Osundare and Chinua Achebe, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Osundare and Antonio Jacinto, the Noma Prize; and Jose Craveirinha, the Camoes Prize. The poems concern political, personal, and social themes and are written with aesthetic simplicity and lyricism. The contributors believe that poets, rather than being exiles from their communities, are prophets, seers, and singers and have a place in everyday life. Most of the poems have been published previously. Several, however, are new, and their appearance in this volume along with an introductory essay written by each poet, makes this anthology important, original, and fresh.