Explorings: A Collection of Poems for the Young People of Southern AfricaRobin Malan New Africa Books, 1988 - 195 páginas A vital, exciting collection of poetry for middle senior school level. |
Índice
Lawrence Ferlinghetti DONT LET THAT HORSE | 5 |
Magoleng wa Selepe MY NAME | 11 |
Adam Small BROWN LULLABY | 17 |
Robert Greig THE RACE | 24 |
William Carlos Williams THE LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH | 30 |
William Carlos Williams THIS IS JUST TO SAY | 35 |
Chris van Wyk ON LEARNING SOTHO | 41 |
Motshile Nthodi SOUTH AFRICAN DIALOGUE | 47 |
Carl Sandburg ELEPHANTS ARE DIFFERENT TO DIFFERENT | 86 |
Sipho Sepamla A WISH | 92 |
Musaemura Zimunya MY HOME | 98 |
CJ Driver IN CHAPEL STREET | 105 |
Casey Motsisi THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER | 107 |
Mafika Gwala KWELA RIDE | 121 |
DH Lawrence PIANO | 135 |
Mongane Serote BEERHALL QUEEN | 145 |
Bernard Levinson YOUR SMALL FIST | 53 |
Douglas Livingstone A PIECE OF EARTH | 59 |
Robert Graves FLYING CROOKED | 65 |
Lionel Abrahams THE WHITEMAN BLUES | 72 |
Wole Soyinka TELEPHONE CONVERSATION | 78 |
Stanley Mogoba TWO BUCKETS | 161 |
Edwin Morgan THE COMPUTERS FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD | 174 |
Chirwa P Chipeya TODAY | 186 |
Musaemura Zimunya ASK GRANPA 33 | 193 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
arms Baas Ben want Baas Ben's Baasboy Baas says baby Bateleur birds blood breath brother bushy head CJ Driver climb Collected Poems Copyright dance dark David Philip DH Lawrence UK Donker Pty Ltd Douglas Livingstone Douglas Livingstone South dreams drunk e e cummings earth eyes face father fear feet Fhazel Johennesse girl grass Gweru hand heart hill of Babylon Jeremy Cronin koppie live Livingstone South Livingstone South Africa lizard looked Micuçú Modikwe Dikobe Mongane Serote morning mother Musaemura Zimunya Musaemura Zimunya Zimbabwe never night Patrick Cullinan phapha rain remember Reprinted by permission Sandburg Sepamla South Africa Shalom Bomb sing Sipho Sepamla Sipho Sepamla South smile song South Africa Staffrider stone talk tell Baas Terry Street things Timothy Winters tourist trees veld walk wife wind window words young Zimbabwe Zimbabwean Poetry
Passagens conhecidas
Página vii - This Is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold...
Página x - ... earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any - lifted from the no of all nothing - human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes...