Title: Windcatcher : new and selected poems, 1964-2006 /
Authors: Breytenbach, Breyten
Publisher: Harcourt,
Year: 2007
Subjects: English poetry; English poetry
Abstract: Includes poems never before published.
Contents: I. Iron cow blues (Poems in exile, 1964-1975). threat of the sick -- report -- death sets in at the feet -- rebel song -- the black city -- departure -- isla negra -- eavesdropper -- there's a large sort of bird my love -- exile, representative -- asylum -- not with the pen but the machine gun -- flame -- letter to butcher from abroad -- prayer -- winter solace -- Dar es Salaam: Harbor of Peace -- I will die and go to my father -- in a burning sea -- firewing -- the essence of death is jealousy -- traveling blind -- jailbird -- wind rose -- Palestine, Israel -- the 12th of April, toward evening -- the flame at the mouth -- 2. The undanced dance (poems from prison, 1975-1982). Chopin's fingers -- destination -- the dream -- December -- the commitment -- sweet and somber -- poem on toilet paper -- the wise fool and ars poetica -- there is life -- freezing point -- for the singers -- the conquerors -- for Francois Villon -- memory two -- transit -- mountain prison -- sanctuary -- father -- mother -- the wake -- as of wings -- Isis -- jantra -- your letter -- the riding song of the bridegroom -- metabolic -- "to live is to burn" -- liberation -- 3. The lines have fallen unto me in beautiful places (poems from outside, 1983-2006). there is no time -- pre-word -- self-portrait -- wind silence -- where is my love -- picture -- Rimbaud's journey -- New York, September 12, 2001 -- the ashes and us -- the commitment remembers -- the cup of words -- the oath -- embark -- Goree hours -- dancing with D at Celra's village festival -- the empty the mountain -- winter work -- Goya -- lookback -- in a cab in the rain, New York -- the meeting -- for Juan Carvajal -- this is the season -- it's not so terrible leaving the battle dishonorably -- the way back -- for Michael Fried: Paris, December, 21, 2004 -- the blood on the doorposts.