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''This is a very good poem indeed. If not great.
At long last real poetry!
The very titles of this man's
books fascinate me.
I very greatly admire
what I've seen of your work. ''
● John Martin ''true poetry'',
on Linkedin
on ''Wanting To Be A Sufi'' &
''I Dream In Long Sentences''
"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."
● Winner
of the Vita Award for his anthology "A
Celebration Of Flames"
"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
"The Time of Our
Lives reveals a writer who enjoys words:
he has a sense of rhythm close to TS Eliot and
an eye for the modern image."
● Brian
Rose, Rand Daily Mail
"Currently reading a book of
incredible poems by @faroukasvat called ''The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs'.
The title poem brought me to tears."
● Léonicka; DynamicAfrica;
et al on twitter
"Like hesitating snowflakes ... his words are
fascinating in their capricious wilfulness ... like unexpected strokes of a
whip."
● Susanne
Baackmann, University Of Albuquerque , USA
"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
"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
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contents
MY HEART IS SOAKED IN SORROW
My Heart Is Soaked
In Sorrow
Often I Have Thought Of You
The Love That Had Found Them
THE AUTUMNAL SOUNDS OF THE VIOLA
Mount Pinatubo
The Autumnal
Sounds Of The Viola
the vase
blue poetry
duende
art
mirrors
BIRDS!
Birds!
Birds Of A Feather
Birds: at the zoo
lake
AMERICAN CHOICES
American Choices
Directions To The
Embarcadero
Plaza Cataluña, Barcelona
European Spires
Zimbabwe
OH MOTHER!
Beyond the Beyond
Let The Last Dance Last
An Application To Visit God
An Application To Go On The Pilgrimage
Oh Mother!
NO GOD CAME HERE TO
ROCK 'N' ROLL
No God Came Here to Rock 'n' Roll
There Must Be A God Out There
The Rope Came Afterwards
I Have To Kill Myself
WHOEVER BROUGHT ME
HERE
WILL HAVE TO TAKE ME
HOME
Pain Is Full Of
Life
You Know How
You Know How # 2
On Wanting To Be A Sufi
THE ZIONIST WALL
Critics
Another Form Of Oppression
Stuffed Brains
Rocks!
The Zionist Wall
I DREAM IN LONG SENTENCES
All That I Held In My Blood
I Did Not Want You
Although
Coast To Coast: new year's poem
What Does It Matter Now
It Wasn't That You Loved Me
O Marléne! a free-wheeling song for bob dylan
I Dream In Long Sentences
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love
(novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs
(poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (literary
criticism)
♦
all my books are now available on amazon: in
paperback & kindle
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Reproduction of
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[] I dream in long
sentences:
amazon
(2015): isbn-10 # 1517164532
isbn-13 # 978
1517164539
kindle (2015): asin # ASIN: B015HHGV1W
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the NOVEL Sadness In The
House Of Love by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: in paperback @ $15 & kindle @ only $5
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