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Mongane Wally Serote (Edited and Introduced by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane)
- Softcover
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Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. A first edition, published in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1982. This is the wrappers issue - there was also a hardcover issue with a smaller print-run. A selection of verse from the early books of South African poet and apartheid activist Mongane Wally Se…rote (b. 1944), published while he was living in exile. Serote returned to South Africa in 1990 after the ban was lifted on the anti-apartheid African National Congress, of which he was a member. In 2018, he was announced as the National Poet Laureate of South Africa. ***Near fine in glossy card covers, with a portrait of the poet on the front cover (by Anne A. Donker). The covers are clean and unmarked. No reading creases to the flat spine - appears unread or only lightly read. No reading lean to the binding and no tears. Page block edges nice and clean. Internally also near fine, with no ownership inscriptions. Internally the pages are clean, with no tears or annotations. No creases or tears. ***200mm x 125mm. 144 pages. ***Contents: Introduction, Acknowledgements, Part 1. Poems from Yakhal'inkomo; Part 2. Poems from Tsetlo; Part 3. Excerpts from No Baby Must Weep; Part 4. Excerpts from Behold Mama, Flowers; Part 5. Excerpts from 'Time has Run Out' and later poems. ***'Mongane Wally Serote was born in 1944 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He was educated in Alexandra, Leribe (Lesotho) and Soweto, and received a degree in fine arts from Columbia University. Since returning from America in 1978, he has lived in Gaborone, where he is attached to the Medu Art Ensemble. Serote's chief concern, as a poet, is to get to the "root" causes of the social maladies which afflict the Black community, and in his pursuit of this goal he has been more penetrating, more profound and intense, more reflective and consistent than many of the poets to emerge from South Africa during the revival period of the late sixties. This, the first selection of Serote's poems, comes at a time when the need for re-evaluation of the work of one of South Africa's leading poets has become imperative' (Quote taken from the back cover) ***A true first edition, wrappers issue, published in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1982, in near fine condition. An uncommon book, especially in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***.
