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Black as I am : [poems] / by Zindzi Mandela and [photographs] by Peter Magubane ; foreword: Andrew Young.
LIBRA - Rare PR9369.3.M346 B57 1978 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mandela, Zindzi, 1960-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mandela, Zindzi, 1960-2020 contributor of poetry.
- Mandela, Zindzi.
- Magubane, Peter photographer.
- Magubane, Peter.
- Squatter settlements--South Africa--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Squatter settlements.
- Poetry, Modern--20th century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- South African poetry (English)--20th century.
- South African poetry (English).
- South Africa.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages : photographs ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, California : The Guild of Tutors Press, 1978.
- Contents:
- Home is where sorrow is born
- Gimme just a little bite
- Dream of frustration
- Savior
- If my right hand was black
- Lord we are black
- Holy baptism
- Standing close to time
- Ode to my father
- Lock the place in your heart
- Children
- Drink from my empty cup
- His unspoken words
- The current gone away
- The song that life plays
- Women
- Dry my tears
- Suicide came to me
- Mother
- I felt so depressed
- Childhood days
- The black bird
- A furnace of hands
- In a troubled dream
- Where are you
- Hold my hand
- There are families
- The night comes out
- So you've heard it before
- Child
- Leaning dangerously
- She lay on the tombstone
- Why does every pain
- Go
- Arriving in a cold damp house
- I need a neighbor who will live
- My mind was blurred
- Take my hand
- She silenced him
- It was dark
- The cold wind crept
- Sitting, side by side
- I waited for you last night
- His face a sorrowful sight
- My heart was empty
- Anger like warm milk
- She uses her chief possession
- I have tried hard
- Curiosity
- A forehead creased
- There's an unknown river in Soweto
- Loneliness
- Your rivers of glory
- Yes, it is me.
- Notes:
- "A prize-winning photographer and a major new writing discovery tell the moving story of South Africa's shanty-towns"--Cover.
- "Edited and designed by Paul O. Proehl. Set in Helvetica."
- Includes index.
- Back cover has copy of written comment by Kenneth Rexroth .
- ISBN:
- 0896150011 :
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