It All Begins: Poems from Postliberation South Africa

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  • ISBN-13: 9781869140083
  • Publisher: University of Natal Press
  • Publication date: 10/31/2002
  • Pages: 240

Table of Contents

The Sugar Cane Cutter 3
Lines for Vincent 5
In a pool of water ... 7
Tikoloshe 11
The Stubborn Death 12
Impression 12
Flesh 13
The Hunger Striker 14
The Funeral of Anton Fransch 16
I Will Call Your Name 19
Things change 20
How will I trust? 23
Tamed 24
Slovo's Short Freedom 27
Xstacy 28
Welcome to the New Consciousness 29
Ministers to the Toothless 31
Reconciliation 32
Mandela, Have You Ever Wondered? 34
Impassable Bridge 35
The Graduate 36
Raid! 37
from Giyani Block 38
Land 41
The Intangible 42
Can't stand, can't dance 43
Ten flapping elbows, mama 44
Mom finds dead daisies ... 48
Overlooking the Block 50
From the Isando On-ramp 51
The Silver Piece 52
Hijacker 54
I Hate my Bank Manager 55
Paper boat 56
Once in time you're robbed all over 57
Sunset 58
Seaworthy 59
A new language 60
Memory 71
Rifle Range 72
Rita 73
Mother's Chickens 75
Still life With plane-trees 76
The Naming Journey 78
Tenda 81
The dream of the blind child 82
Betrayal 84
from Foretelling 86
Nonhlanhla is Gone 89
The girl who then feared to sleep 90
Heart's Hunger 95
The Proper Use of Flowers 98
Waking 99
Shadow to the sun 100
Little Land 101
She 103
Last Memories of Magdalene 104
When it rains like this, like this 106
Times are I'm afraid of this Death 107
I took the picture 108
The Tenant 110
SleepStroker 111
In the moonlight 112
Brush stroke 113
Your smile is a sudden bird 114
Making Things 116
We Jive Like This 121
Mah boy stah 123
Sonnet for Darryl Roodt 124
Touting Taxi 125
Botsotsos 127
Karoo Bathtime 128
Lydia Lindeque's Story 129
For the oral 131
Aaron, weeping 133
The Ghost Echo 136
A painting by Vermeer 138
Leaves to a tree 140
A Shred of identity 144
This Morning Nigger 145
We who are wise 149
The Sound of the Stars 150
Song of the Broken String 151
The question 153
Song of Beauty 155
A small wind, breathing 156
Cape Town, Jerusalem 157
De Terach Hammer 159
Gardens 160
The sky is on fire tonight ... 162
The loveliest song, she says ... 162
Incarnate eternity 163
The sun used to be white 167
Delirium 169
I thank you Dlomo 179
Black Mamba Rising 184
To Gil Scott-Heron 188
I cannot think of all the pains 190
The Rotten Fruit 191
Even the Dead 192
Mental Explosion 198
Cain, cain 200
Comrades, Don't We Delude Ourselves? 202
Bonus 207
Harare 208
River Robert 209
It all begins 211
Notes on the Poets and titles of their books of poems 213
Afterword 225
South African Poetry Magazines and Bookshops 233
Index 237
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