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

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors' Note: In the Original . . . -- Introduction in Two Movements -- 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 Aim�e C�esaire -- 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.

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

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 082, 650