Keorapetse Kgositsile

CASSANDRA WILSON WILL SING

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CASSANDRA WILSON WILL SING

Let me sense the chaos
I will respond
with a song
why else
was I
born
says Jimi of the purple haze
through Kalamu ya Salaam

Now look, at those eyes
look at her arms
follow her little finger

I wonder what
Jean Toomer who could see
the Georgia Pike growing
out of a goat path
in Africa
would say about
Cassandra Wilson tonight

Perhaps Cassandra
does not even sing.
Here of course a voice there is
possessed by music like the rest of her
her whole body is song
her whole body has sensed the chaos

I say look at those eyes
look at her arms
follow her little finger
and understand perhaps why
you were born with ears

© Keorapetse Kgositsile
Iz: This way I salute you
Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2004
Avdio produkcija: LiteraturWERKstatt Berlin 2009
Kategorien: Glasba, Popularna kultura

Keorapetse Kgositsile

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* 19.09.1938, Johannesburg, Južnoafriška republika
† 03.01.2018, Johannesburg, Južnoafriška republika
Keorapetse Kgositsile was born on September 19, 1938 in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1961 Kgositsile was one of the first young members of the African National Congress (ANC) who were instructed to leave the country by the leadership of the national liberation movement.

After a year in Tanzania, where he worked on the Spearhead Magazine as Frene Jinwalla’s editorial assistant, Kgositsile got a scholarship to study Literature and Creative Writing in the United States. Since his first post at Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1969, he taught Literature and Creative Writing at a number of universities in the United States and on the African continent, including the University of Denver, Wayne State University, New School for Social Research, University of California at Los Angeles and the universities of Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Fort Hare. Professor Kgositsile has been the Special Adviser to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr. Z. Pallo Jordan. 

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Kgositsile is one of the most internationally acclaimed and widely published South African poets. His poetry collections include My Name is Afrika, Heartprints, To the Bitter End, If I Could Sing, This Way I Salute You.
In 2006, he became South Africa’s National Poet Laureate.

Keorapetse Kgositsile has passed away on January 3, 2018.
Objave

  • Spirits Unchained

    Detroit: Broadside, 1969

  • For Melba

    Chicago: Third World, 1970

  • My Name is Afrika

    New York: Doubleday, 1971

  • Places and Bloodstains: Notes for Ipeleng

    Oakland: Achebe Publications, 1975

  • The Present is a Dangerous Place to Live

    Chicago: Third World, 1975

  • When the Clouds Clear

    Johannesburg : Congress of South African Writers, 1990

  • To the Bitter End

    Chicago: Third World, 1995

  • If I Could Sing: Selected Poems

    Roggebaai (South Africa): Snailpress, 2002

  • This Way I Salute You

    Cape Town: Kwela and Snailpress, 2004

Nagrade

  • Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize

  • Harlem Cultural Council Poetry Award

  • Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Poetry Award

  • Herman Charles Bosman Prize

  • 2008 National Order of Ikhamanga Silver (OIS)

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