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Windcatcher: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2006 Book

Windcatcher : Hardback : Cengage Learning, Inc : 9780151015320 : 0151015325 : 05 Nov 2007 : Spanning the period between 1964 and 2006, a new collection of poetry by the author of Dog Heart and Lady One includes many never-before-published works, including poems written in prison after being jailed in South Africa for his anti-apartheid activism, as well as 1960s works from Paris, and poems of exile from New York in the 1990s.Read More

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    J. M. Coetzee has described Breyten Breytenbach as "able to descend effortlessly into the Africa of the poetic unconscious and return with the rhythm and the words, the words in the rhythm, that give life." Windcatcher is a collection of Breytenbach's best work in poetry from 1964 to 2006, and includes many poems never before published. There are poems here from Paris in the sixties; poems written in prison, when Breytenbach was jailed in South Africa for seven years for his activities against the apartheid regime; poems of exile from New York in the nineties; poems from Vancouver, from Amsterdam, from Dar es-Salaam. Windcatcher is a remarkable record of a remarkable life and imagination.
     
    it is when night is at its deepest
    just before morning that the muezzin calls the faithful
    for they are still asleep
    and his sad cry drifts over index fingers of minarets
    rooftops and lovers and flowers and docks
    his sad cry dawns over city 
    --from "Dar es-Salaam: Harbor of Peace"

  • 0151015325
  • 9780151015320
  • Breyten Breytenbach
  • 5 November 2007
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 192
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