Azanian Love Song

Don Mattera

Description

Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writer's Association and the Congress of South African Writers. Born in 1935 in Western Native Township (now Westbury) across the road from Sophiatown, Mattera can lay claim to an intriguingly diverse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: African Perspectives Publishing
• Date de parution: 29 décembre 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780992187569
• Langue: English

Extrait

For the children
of our beautiful land,
and to the memory
of our freedom fighters
who gave their lives.

May freedom reign!
The Department of Arts and Culture (South Africa) has contributed financially to the reprinting of Azanian Love Song .
African Perspectives Publishing PO Box 95342 Grant Park 2051 South Africa
www.africanperspectives.co.za
in association with
African Morning Star Publications PO Box 562 Florida 1710 South Africa
Don Mattera 2007
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
First published by Skotaville Publishers 1983 Second edition published by Justified Press 1994
This edition (revised) published by African Perspectives Publishing in association with African Morning Star Publications 2007
ISBN (soft cover) 978-0-620-39486-4 ISBN (hard cover) 978-0-620-39489-5
Edited by Paul Sulter
Typeset by Gail Day
Cover design by Design Mill
Cover photograph courtesy of The Star
Printed and bound by Intrepid Printers (Pty) Ltd
Contents
About Don Mattera
Introduction
Previous publications
Blood River
Day of thunder
Sophiatown
I feel a poem
The Day they came for our House
Submission
Fall
I saw a man
Demented
Ashamed
Protea
Vietnam
Friday night
On a man hanging
Let the children decide
Mine workers song
Black plum
Man to man
At least
For a cent
The sun has died
Cry of Cain
Departure
Sowing and Reaping
Futility
Gelvandale
Weave
Degrees
Lament
Weekend
Quest
Strange rhythm
Limitation
I am not there
Blackness blooms
Journey
Burning train
Offering
Fallen fruit
Truth
And yet
After the flowering
I watched
You would know
No time, Black man
They think us happy
Comparison
Expectation
Embryo
Even I
Remember
Final hour
Child
Old woman
The poet must die
Do you remember
Of reason and discovery
Tokologo
Contamination
Mystery
I am
First victim
At the mortuary
Heat of our chains
If we seek to be fre