Cemetery of Mind (African Writers Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865437335 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Spiritual nourishment for freedom fighters Minds of every hue intermingle with matterOnly of concern of the Censor; AthenaAnd Malcolm X are the hosts, dealingOut dagga and kachasu to freedom veterans.I enjoy a precarious dance between the traditional ideas about the shaman and a more abstract idea of the modern, 20th century shaman. Marechera is both, and CEMETERY OF MIND revels in shamanistic disorder.When Marechera's poetry "heals", it does so violently -- in the same sense that a surgeon is violent. This may not be the soothing impress. BOODONKA:) said Comet's Tail. This posthumous poetry collection reveals the many different sides to Dambuzo Marechera, once Zimbabwe's enfant terrible novelist, who was, perhaps, also a genius. Like Louis-Ferdinand Celine or Basquiat, his fame was all too short-lived and fickle. His life was comprised of striking contradictions (as any artist's is) but in CEMETARY OF MIND he seems to be reveling in them. In certain poems he is a Third World anarchist revolutionary, whereas in others he seems perfectly at home in urban London
Although he died young and his output was regrettably small, the difference in his voice, in his concerns and in his attitude added something special and enduring to the body of African literature." - Dennis Brutus . From the Back Cover "A profound even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer, an instinctive nomad and bohemian in temperament, Marechera was a writer in constant quest for his real self, quarrying towards a core that he once wryly expressed in the cry, "My whole life has been an attempt to make myself a skeleton in my own cupboard." The reward of "Scrapiron Blues" is that he has succeeded largely in laying the ghost of that skeleton, and bringing his tormented humanity to bear on the plight of others, their loves, their little tragedies, their sense of mockery and love of life." - Wole Soyinka "Dambudzo Marechera was and is an important voice in African literature
. "The Black Insider", "Cemetery of Mind", and "Scrapiron Blues" comprise many of his poems and short stories that were published after his death. Dambudzo Marechera, a Zimbabwean who died at the young age of 35 in 187, is also the author of the award winning novel, "House of Hunger." He left behind a large number of unpublished literary
"Cemetery of Mind" demands serious attention and reveals, through the sharpest of the poet's voice, the real world inside us all.. The poems sparkle with Marechera's unique wit, always quickened by his uncanny ability to use language to subvert all conventional cultural and political pieties. This is a book of poems by Dambudzo Marechera, representing the whole spectrum of the young writer's growing literary maturity