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Author Rachilo, Sol.

Title Nostalgic waves from Soweto : poetic memories of the June 16th uprising / Solrha
Published Grant Park, South Africa : African Perspectives, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 85 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; About Sol Rachilo; Foreword; Introduction; 'X'; The Signatories; Let's Recall; Boots in the Night; Lament; Child Crushed by Casspir; One of the Next Seven; The Creation of an Innocent Criminal; Eleventh Hour; The Black Cloth; Comrade Chris; Nomzamo; To Stompie; Soweto, I Salute You; Melody for a Father; Longing to be Loved; The Couple's Song; As Luck Would Have It; Uskhova Wasemasotsheni eB. E.S.L.; Profession of Despair; Night Sweepers; What Lurks; Oliver Twist in Soweto; Baby Found in Plastic Bag; The Night She Passed On; Something to Live for
MatshidisoThe Cripple at the Party; What Change is There?; Loose Cannons; My Soweto Dream; Looking Through the Hazy Glass; The Grave; The Tree by the River; The Torch; Caged in Your Mind; Awake but Not Alone; Dreaming of the Future; Paradise; Remember; But Once; Miracles Abound; Back Cover
Summary "Packed with more than 70 of Rachilo's cutting-edge poems mainly about events that unfolded before the world and the country in 1976 and 1977, this collection is like a journey into the past, which many of us would want to forget. Nostalgic Waves from Soweto is quirky, poignant, sardonic, haunting and sometimes just coldly observant. The volume contains striking images of a Soweto known only to those who lived, loved and suffered there. Rose Francis, director of African Perspectives Publishing, which is publishing the volume, believes it will be an invaluable addition to the growing body of literature on Soweto in the 1970s and its multi- facetted but often unknown life and characters. "His poetry is a prism reflecting the life, characters, thoughts and hopes of the time, sometimes from unexpected perspectives," she says. "It is bound to evoke nostalgia in those who knew the Soweto of those days and introduce newcomers to unknown dimensions of this famous, and infamous, township""--Sowetan
Notes Print version record
Subject Poetry by individual poets.
FICTION -- General.
SUBJECT South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 -- Poetry
Soweto (South Africa) -- Poetry
Subject South Africa
South Africa -- Soweto
Genre/Form poetry.
History
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780981439846
0981439845