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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Incantations of the Sea: Moando Coast | 11 | |
Newscast | 13 | |
Obbligato from Public Gallery | 14 | |
Old Wharf Canto | 15 | |
Dialogue | 16 | |
Symphony from the Balcony | 17 | |
Of Promises and Prophecy | 19 | |
Four Ways of Dying | 22 | |
Manifesto on Ars Poetica | 24 | |
A Love Poem for My Country | 26 | |
The Singing Drum | 27 | |
Everything to Declare | 28 | |
Double Song | 29 | |
These Too Are Our Elders | 30 | |
Visiting Zomba Plateau | 31 | |
Making Our Clowns Martyrs | 32 | |
The Cheerful Girls at Smiller's Bar, 1971 | 33 | |
On Being Asked to Write a Poem for 1979 | 34 | |
I Was Sent For | 35 | |
Walking the Plateau | 36 | |
Pain | 37 | |
Reborn | 38 | |
Summer Fires of Mulanje Mountain | 39 | |
An Artist and a Wailing Mother | 41 | |
Corruption | 42 | |
An Agony ... A Resurrection | 43 | |
Nightmare I | 47 | |
Nightmare III | 49 | |
The Scaffold | 50 | |
Tomorrow | 52 | |
The City a Wrecked Ship | 52 | |
Abortion | 53 | |
Confessions | 54 | |
I Usually Look Around Me | 54 | |
Abode of Arrival | 55 | |
State of Butterfly | 56 | |
Arabesque | 57 | |
December 31 | 57 | |
Wall of Dreams (2) | 59 | |
Belonging to a New Family | 61 | |
Here I Am Once More ... | 63 | |
Ode of Signs | 65 | |
Female | 69 | |
Quatrains for Joy | 71 | |
The Pen | 72 | |
On the Tattered Edges ... | 73 | |
My Woman's Transparence | 74 | |
The Africa of the Statue | 75 | |
The Vultures Grow Impatient | 76 | |
Homecoming | 79 | |
Guerilla Fighter | 81 | |
Poem of Return | 82 | |
From the Outside | 83 | |
Promise! | 84 | |
There's an Unknown River in Soweto | 85 | |
I Saw as a Child | 86 | |
I Have Tried Hard | 87 | |
I Waited for You Last Night | 88 | |
Sometimes When It Rains | 89 | |
Observations | 91 | |
The Women Sing ... | 92 | |
The Know | 93 | |
Welcome to the New Consciousness | 95 | |
Wet Pain ... Tread with Care | 98 | |
Ofay-Watcher Looks Back | 99 | |
City Johannesburg | 101 | |
Alexandria | 102 | |
This Old Woman | 104 | |
The Curfew Breakers | 105 | |
The Change | 107 | |
Red Hills of Home | 108 | |
You Will Forget | 110 | |
Desert Crossing | 112 | |
The Old Man Inside Me | 112 | |
When Love's Perished | 113 | |
The Cemetery in the Mind | 114 | |
Neither Innocence Nor Experience | 114 | |
This Morning | 115 | |
Arrivants | 117 | |
Kisimiso | 119 | |
Let It Be | 121 | |
Mr. Bezuidenhout's Dogs | 122 | |
By Forty-Sixth | 125 | |
Leaking Roof | 127 | |
Another Moment | 129 | |
Return to the Homeland | 131 | |
Along the Banks of the Charles | 132 | |
The Martyred Tamarind | 133 | |
The Island and Europe | 135 | |
The Emigrant's Son | 136 | |
Three Poems | 137 | |
The Elders Are Gods | 139 | |
No Argument Tonight | 140 | |
Mr. Agama | 141 | |
Television as God | 143 | |
I Want to Go to Keta | 145 | |
They're Tearing Up the Old Graveyard | 147 | |
They Hunt the Night | 148 | |
Elegy for the Revolution | 150 | |
Tsitsa | 151 | |
Murmuring | 151 | |
Our Birth-Cord | 152 | |
Exiles | 154 | |
Illicit Passion | 155 | |
Mawu of the Waters | 155 | |
Messages | 156 | |
A Note to My Liberal Feminist Sister (1) | 159 | |
Steps | 160 | |
I Am the Freshly Dead Husband | 161 | |
King Tut in America | 163 | |
Home News | 165 | |
A Stone at the Tip of the Tongue | 167 | |
Cloud Rains | 168 | |
The Way | 169 | |
The Spring's Last Drop | 170 | |
Harvest of War | 172 | |
May Ours Not Be | 174 | |
When the Monuments ... | 175 | |
The Dialogue | 176 | |
Bitter | 177 | |
Oya Now | 178 | |
4th Witness - The Petty Thieves | 179 | |
I Wan Bi President | 180 | |
Do Not Stop Me! | 185 | |
Poem | 187 | |
Asphalt | 188 | |
Prologue ... | 191 | |
The New Brooms | 192 | |
Song | 193 | |
Where Everybody Is King | 194 | |
The Fate of Vultures | 196 | |
A Verdict of Stone | 197 | |
The Daydream of Ants | 198 | |
Where the Nightmare Begins | 200 | |
Release | 201 | |
Paris Latin Quarter | 202 | |
She Thinks in Song | 204 | |
Longing | 206 | |
I Sing of Change | 207 | |
Who Says That Drought Was Here | 208 | |
XXII | 210 | |
XIV | 210 | |
The Word Is an Egg | 212 | |
Dyeing | 213 | |
Letter to a Roving Poet | 215 | |
Cloak of Dawn | 216 | |
Analysis | 219 | |
Peasants | 221 | |
Poet Among Those Who Are Also Poets | 222 | |
Childhood | 223 | |
Dead Eyes | 224 | |
Beloved | 225 | |
Lungi Crossing | 226 | |
When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes | 227 | |
Notes | ||
Index of Authors | ||
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