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§ A CELEBRATION OF FLAMES : FAROUK ASVAT §
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§ Winner Of The
Vita Award §
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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 citation
"Like hesitating snowflakes ... his words are
fascinating in their capricious wilfulness ... like unexpected strokes of a
whip."
● Susanne Baackmann, University
Of Albuquerque, USA
"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
""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
"... 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
" ... 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
"Here is the poetry which in its very contradictions
explores accurately the emotional terrain and tensions of life in the townships
today."
● Kelwyn Sole, University of Cape Town, Staffrider
"... one of the most prolific - and controversial -
South African poets "
● Jon Qwelane, editor Sunday Star
"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
"... Farouk Asvat regards the honed word as a means
of interrogating the slogans and dreams of the revolution."
● Michael Chapman, Southern
African Review
""A Celebration of Flames" is so
near to the bone, so full of despair and sanity. There is such gentleness and sadness in the
love poetry ..."
● Debbie Arends, University Of
Witwatersrand
"... 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
"... a love imagery entwined with pain, blood and
violence ..."
● Josefa Salmón, Loyola University, USA
"Poetry is not viewed primarily as an art form,
but rather as the vital expression of a people struggling to voice its soul ..."
● Phyllis Bischof, The Journal
Of Academic Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley, USA
"He conveys a vivid sense of the country's agony, of
the brutalization of all those involved in political conflict."
● Amrit
Manga`, New Nation
"... (his) poems mirror deep sorrow, passion and the
pain of love. Yet others glint with a
quicksilver humour and are effectively salted with the slang of street-talk."
● Neill Darke, Weekend
Argus
"... they possess considerable power ... Effective
imagery abounds."
● Elspeth Johnson, Daily
Dispatch
""A Celebration of Flames"
by Farouk Asvat addresses the intercommunal atrocities that occurred."
● Priya Narismulu, Journal
Of Language And Popular Culture In Africa
"A common feature of the volume is the mingling of
internal and external reality into internal psychological disturbance."
● Duncan Brown, English Academy Review
"Farouk Asvat's incisive
understanding of human nature and ... evocative description of South African
lifestyle under the draconian laws of apartheid."
● Lenasia Times
"... one of the best poets in the country
..."
● Gomolemo Mokae, The Star
Tonight
"This anthology contains
some of the finest political poems published in the past two decades ...."
● Heather Mackie, Business
Day
"Asvat ... explores ... the turbulence
and fragility of life under apartheid and the sustaining power of love in these
times."
● Andrew Martin, National
English Literary Museum News
● Ameen
Akhalwaya, editor The Indicator
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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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rights reserved.
Farouk Asvat
asserts his moral right to be
identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may be
reproduced by any means whatsoever, or transmitted in any form or any means
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the writing shall not be sold, lent, hired, resold or circulated in any form or
binding or cover other than that in which it is published,
without
the prior permission of the author in writing.
Permission to
publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the
author.
Reproduction of
this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,
is liable to a
payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.
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[] a celebration of
flames:
donker
(1987): isbn-10 # 0868521442
donker
(1987): isbn-13 # 9780868521442
piquant publications (2007): isbn-10 # 1920151044
piquant publications (2007): isbn-13 # 9781920151058
kindle
(2014): asin # BOOK077AHK
amazon
(2014): isbn-10 # 1500956724
isbn-13 # 978-1500956721
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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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