A Celebration Of Flames

ISBN-13: 9781500956721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 136 str.

Farouk Asvat

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WINNER OF THE VITA AWARD -A Celebration Of Flames is a powerful, impassioned call. The sanity and courage of this collection arises from the poet's unique experiential perceptions of his milieu, making him one of the few who can write about these traumatic times with such lucidity and lyricism. The strength of Farouk Asvat's poetry lies in the way he intertwines the complex elements of social and political conflicts with intense personal relationships. The wide tonal range extends from sensual and delicate insights into the nature of passion to the satiric and humorous use of slang.- Vita Award press release -Like hesitating snowflakes ... his words are fascinating in their capricious wilfulness ... like unexpected strokes of a whip.- Susanne Baackmann, University Of Albuquerque, USA -Farouk Asvat ... writes about love and suffering, about individualism, snobbishness, pretence and pride, about human and environmental beauty and about opposing oppression, and who deploys metaphysical, lyrical and colloquial language, slang and standard diction, all with equal strength and ease.- Cosmo Pieterse, Culture In Another South Africa -Since he has been in the line of fire as both a victim of Apartheid and as a political voice in the struggle for liberation, his evocation of the contemporary South African battlefield and his testimony of the humiliation, isolation, deprivation, degradation and murder, the collective weapons of Apartheid, are chillingly authentic.- Herbert Steyn, English Olympiad, King Edward VII School. -A Celebration of Flames (is) a powerful, impassioned call. I admire the sanity and courage of this. Your position and perception make you one of the few who can write on this subject without obscenity.- Lionel Abrahams, editor Purple Renoster & Sesame -The legend of poet extraordinaire Farouk Asvat: ... like vintage wine, proper poetry matures with time, and like vintage art the voice and wisdom of a poet worth the name is timeless.- Mphutlane wa Bofelo, kagablog -His love poetry soars with an intense sensitivity, it celebrates lyrically the joys of a most exquisite sensuousness.- Marcia Leveson, University Of The Witwatersrand, The Indicator -... you almost catch your breath at some of the stanzas ... you can re-read it several times and be struck by new ideas, metaphors, elegiac surprises, and the heartfelt poignancy ...- Aggrey Klaaste, editor Sowetan -Out of an angry silence, a polished poet is born.- Anton Harber, editor Weekly Mail -Farouk Asvat's award-winning collection of poems crackles with a passionate consuming pace ...- Z B Molefe, arts editor City Press -This anthology contains some of the finest political poems published in the past two decades ....- Heather Mackie, Business Day -A Celebration of Flames- has hit the local best-sellers list - a rare feat for a volume of poetry.- Ameen Akhalwaya, editor The Indicator -... a love imagery entwined with pain, blood and violence ...- Josefa Salmon, Loyola University, USA -A common feature of the volume is the mingling of internal and external reality into internal psychological disturbance.- Duncan Brown, English Academy Review -... one of the best poets in the country ...- Gomolemo Mokae, The Star Tonight -... Farouk Asvat regards the honed word as a means of interrogating the slogans and dreams of the revolution.- Michael Chapman, Southern African Review - ... carries conviction and conveys a mounting tension which can be glancingly lyrical and simultaneously politically authoritative.- Peter Wilhelm, Financial Mail -Asvat's distrust of rhetorical formulas produces a language that is capable of interrogating the dreams and slogans of the revolution.- Julia Martin, Upstream -... ringing celebrations and criticisms of recent political events ... this collection is an important addition to South African poetry.- Francis Faller, Johannesburg College of Education, Tribute