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- Azanian Love Song
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- 2011
- Published by: African Perspectives
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Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writer's Association and the Congress of South African Writers. Born in 1935 in Western Native Township (now Westbury) across the road from Sophiatown, Mattera can lay claim to an intriguingly diverse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins.
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- About Don Mattera
- p. vi
- Introduction
- pp. vii-viii
- Blood River
- p. 1
- Day of thunder
- p. 2
- Sophiatown
- p. 3
- I feel a poem
- p. 4
- Submission
- p. 7
- I saw a man
- p. 9
- Friday night
- p. 14
- On a man hanging
- p. 15
- Mine workers’ song
- p. 17
- Black plum
- p. 18
- Man to man
- p. 19
- For a cent
- p. 21
- The sun has died
- p. 22
- Cry of Cain
- p. 23
- Sowing and Reaping
- p. 25
- Gelvandale
- p. 27
- Strange rhythm
- p. 33
- Limitation
- p. 34
- I am not there
- p. 35
- Blackness blooms
- p. 36
- Burning train
- p. 38
- Fallen fruit
- p. 40
- After the flowering
- p. 43
- You would know
- p. 45
- No time, Black man
- p. 46
- They think us happy
- p. 47
- Comparison
- p. 48
- Expectation
- p. 49
- Final hour
- p. 53
- The poet must die
- p. 60
- Do you remember
- p. 61
- Of reason and discovery
- pp. 62-63
- Contamination
- p. 66
- First victim
- p. 69
- At the mortuary
- p. 70
- Heat of our chains
- pp. 71-72
- Azanian Love Song
- p. 74
- No children
- pp. 75-76
- A new time
- p. 78
- I am infinite
- p. 81
- Dry your eyes
- p. 83
- Shadows deepen
- p. 84
- Sea and sand
- p. 86
- Sea of shadows
- p. 87
- New vision
- p. 88
- Dying ground
- p. 89
- Singing fools
- p. 90
- Elegy for Beirut
- p. 96
- Freedom Fighters
- p. 97
- Our sons, our daughters
- p. 100
- Zimbabwean Love Song
- p. 101
- Bitter seed
- p. 102
- Salute the warrior
- pp. 103-104
- Namibian Love Song
- p. 105
- A gift of words
- pp. 106-107
- I am nothing
- pp. 108-109
- I will think of you
- p. 112
- A Song for Mandela
- pp. 113-114
- We have been here before
- pp. 115-116
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ISBN
9780981439860
Related ISBN(s)
9780620394864
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OCLC
780300719
Pages
128
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
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No
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