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		<title>Claude Lévi-Strauss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[23 November 1908 &#8211; 31 October 2009
A good innings.
Obituary at The Guardian.
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		<title>Winston Mankunku Ngozi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1943 &#8211; 13 October 2009
A poem by Kelwyn Sole from his debut collection, The Blood of Our Silence (Ravan, 1987):
Mankunku
Dark golden boat
on a sea
far away, rock with me
rock with me:
deep-throated bird
gentle me home
past the mud-lined street
where thoughts stick fast
and children pick rubbish
hungrily
the night flakes notes
from the scalp of my sorrow -
hide in my pillow
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		<title>Sergey Gandlevsky – The Monument</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNCLE SERYOZHA has lost his marbles, and, very spryly for a man of his age, jumps onto the running board of the general conversation in order to dictate its itinerary:  the storied times when sour cream was so thick a spoon would stand upright in it, and he could have dinner for a ruble and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&blog=952512&post=549&subd=groundwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sergey Gandlevsky – Stanzas, The Use of Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanzas
—In Memory of My Mother

I.
Speak. But what do you want to say? Perhaps
How the barge moved along the city river, trailing sunset,
How all June until the solstice
Summer stretched on its tiptoes to the light,
How breath of linden blew through sultry squares
And how thunder rolled from all directions that July?
You once believed that speech needs an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&blog=952512&post=534&subd=groundwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Koninkryk van reën</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m preparing some folders for Dropbox and came across this 1st draft Afrikaans translation of &#8216;Kingdom of Rain&#8217; from This Carting Life (Kwela/Snailpress, 2005; English version here). I can&#8217;t remember translating it; perhaps someone else translated it? (Please drop me a note.)
Koninkryk van reën
from these I am growing no nearer
to what secret eluded the children
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		<title>More anger and thoughts on iBurst</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like your kicks this way, then hold onto something.
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		<title>Open letter to iBurst</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check it.
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		<title>Dagga in African Cities</title>
		<link>http://groundwork.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/dagga-in-african-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural edition of African Cities Reader is now available and an extract from unfinished &#8220;Dagga&#8221; appears in it:
Contents Page (PDF)
&#8220;Dagga&#8221; (PDF)
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		<title>Meeting the British, Paul Muldoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meeting the British
We met the British in the dead of winter.
The sky was lavender
and the snow lavender-blue.
I could hear, far below,
the sound of two streams coming together
(both were frozen over)
and, no less strange,
myself calling out in French
across that forest-
clearing. Neither General Jeffrey Amherst
nor Colonel Henry Bouquet
could stomach our willow-tobacco.
As for the unusual
scent when the Colonel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&blog=952512&post=509&subd=groundwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Michael Jackson</title>
		<link>http://groundwork.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/for-michael-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Michael Jackson
When God touches you there
you soar
in amplified magnificence
or fall into recoil
into a ball of epic self-pity
empty of blessing
shucked of benediction
but the only drug, ugly, beatific.
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;
This was written 10 days ago after reading Peter Conrad&#8217;s overview of Jackson&#8217;s life, &#8220;Who stole the soul of the boy from Indiana&#8221;,  at The Guardian, cribbing &#8220;epic self-pity&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=groundwork.wordpress.com&blog=952512&post=506&subd=groundwork&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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