One of many poems by Dennis Brutus reflecting on the prison experience, Robben Island Sequence is fairly typical of the poet’s later work, in which Brutus sought to eliminate the tight verse structure and ornate diction of his earlier work… Read More ›
AT A FUNERAL – DENNIS BRUTUS Black, green and gold at sunset: pageantry And stubbled graves: expectant, of eternity, In bride’s-white, nun’s-white veils the nurses gush their bounty Of red-wine cloaks, frothing the bugled dirging slopes Salute! “hen ponder all… Read More ›