Keorapetse Kgositsile : collected poems, 1969-2018 / Keorapetse Kgositsile ; edited and with an introduction by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers and Uhuru Portia Phalafala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kgositsile, Keorapetse, author.

Contributor:

De Villiers, Phillippa Yaa, editor.

Phalafala, Uhuru Portia, editor.

Series:

African poetry book series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 255 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

"A comprehensive collection of the new and collected works of South Africa's second poet laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile"-- Provided by publisher.

"Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Plumpp, Dudley Randall, and George Kent. This comprehensive collection of Kgositsile's new and collected works spans almost fifty years. During his lifetime, Kgositsile dedicated the majority of his poems to people or movements, documenting the struggle against racism, Western imperialism, and racial capitalism, and celebrating human creativity, particularly music, as an inherent and essential aspect of the global liberation struggle. This collection demonstrates the commitment to equality, justice, and egalitarianism fostered by cultural workers within the mass liberation movement. As the introduction notes, Kgositsile had an "undisputed ability to honor the truth in all its complexity, with a musicality that draws on the repository of memory and history, rebuilt through the rhythms and cadences of jazz." Addressing themes of Black solidarity, displacement, and anticolonialism, Kgositsile's prose is fiery, witty, and filled with conviction. This collection showcases a voice that wanted to change the world-and did"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Spirits Unchained (1969)

To Gloria

For LeRoi Jones, April, 1965

When Brown Is Black

Brother Malcolm's Echo

Mandela's Sermon

Elegy for David Diop

Ivory Masks in Orbit

Lumumba Section

Spirits Unchained

To Fanon

Song for Aime Ceaire

My Name Is Afrika

For Spellman at Spelman

I Am Music People

Origins

For Melba (1970)

And the Long Story

Song for Melba

MMABATHO: Dakar, 1966

The Creator

Indeed in Deed

For Those Who Love & Care

True Blue

Of Death and Lives

Death Doses

Death Doses No. 2

Death Doses No. 3

My People When Nothing Moves

Come Duze

3000 Miles Apart

Of Us for Us

In Time

By A. B. Inspired

Tropics

For Melba

My Name Is Afrika (1971)

The Air I Hear

Impulse

Shotgun

Mayibuye iAfrika

Could Be

Random Notes to My Son

To Mother

My People No Longer Sing

To a Black Woman, Insane

To My Daughter

Sift and Shift

Vector or Legacy

Bleached Callouses, Africa, 1966

The Lip Trick

The Nitty-Gritty

Time

New Dawn

Inherent and Inherited Mistrusts

Symptoms

Flirtation

Conditioned

Innuendo

Axiomatic

Bandung Dance

For Afroamerica

No Celebration

In the Nude

Of Yesterday's Tomorrows

Epitaph

Like the Tide: Cloudward

No Tears in the Tide

Towards a Walk in the Sun

The Spearhead Wind Strides

The Gods Wrote

The Long Reach

The New Breed

For Eusi, Ayi Kwei & Gwen Brooks

Recreation

Point of Departure: Fire Dance Fire Song

I. The Elegance of Memory

II. Lumumba Section

III. Fire Dance

IV. Spirits Unchained

For Sons of Sonless Fathers

Notes from No Sanctuary

The Present Is a Dangerous Place to Live (1974, 1993)

For Ipeleng

The Present Is a DANGEROUS Place to Live ... One

I. In the Mourning

II. Beware of Dreams

III. Without Shadow

IV. Mirrors, without Song

Mystique

There Are No Sanctuaries except in Purposeful Action... Two

1

2. When Things Fall Apart

3. Exile

4. Perception

5. Logistics

... Three

Blues for Some Literary Friends & Myself

Home Is Where the Music Is ... Four

For Billie Holiday

For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

For B. B. King and Lucille

Acknowledgement

Pro/Creation

For Hughie Masekela

Places and Bloodstains (1975)

Requiem for My Mother

Epitaph for Can Themba

For Gwigwi

For TW

For Otis Redding

Here We Are Like the Present

Letter to Skunder

For Zeke and Dennis

For Cecil Abrahams

After Mongane

Son of Mokae

Song for Ilva Mackay and Mongane

For Montshiwa & Phetoe

Open Letter

Places and Bloodstains

Heartprints (1980)

Letter to Ipeleng on Her Birthday 1976

When the Clouds Clear (1990)

The Long Arm of the Blues

The Same Strip of Land

Rites of Passage

Dance

Morning in Tunis

Sharper Than Any Blade You Know

Bleeding Red

Luthuli Detachment

When the Clouds Clear

Red Song

From Now On. ...

For Olinka

An Injury to One Is an Injury to All

Every Patriot a Combatant

Quest

Kate

June 16 Year of the Spear

Chimid: A Memorial

Seaparankoe

Here You Almost Started

A Luta Continua

New Age

Manifesto

South Africa Salutes Uzbekistan

To the Bitter End (1995)

Coil of Time

What Time Is It?

In the Wheeling and Dealing Time

Rites of Passage: (1991)

Dumalisile

I Am

Manboy

When the Deal Goes Down

Years without Tears

Strange Rituals

Grand Papa Dhlomo

For David Rubadiri

For Bra Ntemi

Fidelity

Montage: Bouctou Lives

Heart to Heart

We Are All Involved

Even Skin Disappears

If I Could Sing (2002)

Recollections

Venceremos

Affirmation

Memorial

If I Could Sing

Renaissance

Rejoice

This Way I Salute You (2004)

For Johnny Dyani

Santamaria

Cassandra Wilson Will Sing

Where Her Eye Sits

eThekwini

For Gloria Bosman

For Our Mother of the Heavy Names

Homesoil in My Blood (2018)

No Boundaries

No Serenity Here

Letter from Havana

In the Naming

Anguish Longer Than Sorrow

Wounded Dreams

I Am No Stranger

We Are All Involved (2011)

Of Shadows and Chameleons

Festive Heart

I Know a Few Things

New Day

For Fernando, Gloria, Eduardo and the 2012 Team

For Sterling Plumpp

For Hu Xiancheng

Uncollected (1971)

Carbon-Copy Whiteman or Sexual Refugee

The Awakening

Manifesto (1971)

`Yes, Mandela, We Shall Be Moved'

Fruitful Seed (1971)

Freedom Train, 1965

Introduction to a Future History Book.

ISBN:

9781496221155

149622115X

OCLC:

1311170817