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About
From the Deep South Website:
“Originally published by Gecko Poetry in 1999 and republished 20 years later by Deep South, The Bavino Sermons includes such memorable poems as “Lines for Vincent”, “Riding the victim train”, “To Gil Scott-Heron”, “Crab attack”, “Rap Ranting” and “The Fela Sermon”, as well as some longer poems and prose fragments.”
Passion drives this book. When the matrix of issues is the world we are in now/ yesterday/ the future, and the forecast is strewn with images of gore and madness, we laugh as well. If for some of us the idea of love’s physical gestures might be reduced to twinkling eroticism, Rampolokeng comes in and insists on the bland and blatant […] The Bavino Sermons are sermons of moral outrage. In their satellite eye-view and perspective of witness, the themes crisscross and happen all over…
– Khulile and Sibusiso Nxumalo, reviewing the original 1999 edition
Author Bio
From the Deep South Website:
“Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet and performer, the author since 1990 of 13 books, including eight books of poetry, a playscript, and four novels. He has collaborated with visual artists, playwrights, filmmakers, theatre and opera producers, poets and musicians. His no-holds-barred style, radical political-aesthetic and instantly recognisable voice have brought him a unique place in South African literature.
Rampolokeng won the NIHSS award for his poetry collection a half century thing, and the UJ fiction prize for his novel Bird-Monk Seding. He has performed his poetry in several countries in Europe, as well as in the USA, Colombia and Brazil, and has shared the stage with poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Jean Binta Breeze and Mutabaruka.”
