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09.06.09
Brazil: Revisited
by Dennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus is a South African poet. Active against Apartheid, he was arrested in 1963 and imprisoned for 18 months on Robben Island. After his release, he became a political refugee in the United States. Today he is based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, engaged in poetry and activism against all forms of oppression and exploitation. The Centre for Civil Society circulates a Dennis Brutus poem every day. If you want to get a Brutus poem a day, subscribe to the Debate list at lists.kabissa.org/mailman/listinfo/debate.
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by Dennis Brutus
"A modern city, warts and all." -- Dennis Brutus
Dawnlight seeps slowly into Sao Paulo skies
as if reluctant to rediscover old betrayals
or disclose new ones in Lula's disappointed lands
(IMF/World Bank scoundrels have tenacious
as well as rapacious ravening claws)
but trees silhouetted against pale skies
against malodorous ditches assert
irrepressible growth, undeterrable vitality:
daylight advances, accepts sunset
all elements of daedal law.
Dennis Brutus is a South African poet. Active against Apartheid, he was arrested in 1963 and imprisoned for 18 months on Robben Island. After his release, he became a political refugee in the United States. Today he is based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, engaged in poetry and activism against all forms of oppression and exploitation. The Centre for Civil Society circulates a Dennis Brutus poem every day. If you want to get a Brutus poem a day, subscribe to the Debate list at lists.kabissa.org/mailman/listinfo/debate.