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Subject: SOUTH AFRICA - APARTHEID
Matches Found: 3

CATENA, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray you, remember them
Last Line: Father grieving %mothers weeping %bodies of children torn and bleeding %pray, remember them: %we rem
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Africa - Neocolonialism; South Africa - Apartheid; Soweto, South Africa


CHILD WHO WAS SHOT DEAD BY SOLDIERS IN NYANGA, by INGRID JONKER    Poem Source                
First Line: The child is not dead
Last Line: The child grown to a giant travels through the whole world %without a pass
Subject(s): South Africa - Apartheid


NIGHTSONG: CITY, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep well, my love, sleep well
Last Line: My sounds begin again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; South Africa - Apartheid; British Empire; England - Empire