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Dewey Decimal Number: 896 EAN: 9780156032070 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0156032074 Label: Harvest Books Manufacturer: Harvest Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: November 03, 2008 Publisher: Harvest Books Studio: Harvest Books Editorial Review: Product Description: 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" Average Rating:
 Rating: - Sampling of his 40 years' workReviewed by Beth Cummings Subtitled: New and Selected Poems 1964-2006 Breyten Breytenbach was born and raised in South Africa. He spent some of his college years in France where he married a French-Vietnamese woman. Upon returning to South Africa, during the apartheid years, he was persecuted for marrying outside of his race and subsequently imprisoned for seven years for anti-apartheid activities. The poetry in this book covers his years in France, the years ... Read More Rating: - "the older you become the more silent you are"A collection of Breytenbach's poetry from 1964 through 2006, this volume features a number of unfinished poems, from a South African prison, from 60s Paris and New York exile in the 90s, spanning the geography of Africa (Dar es Salaam), Amsterdam and Vancouver. A harbinger of the winds of change, the poet speaks to universal conscience and one man's journey through a troubled world as expressed in his work. Born in South Africa in 1939, Breytenbach left his country of origin only to be ... Read More |
