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    Dennis Vincent Brutus (1924-2009) was a South African poet and activist. He published several collections of poetry dealing with his experiences of racism in South Africa and exile. Some of his most notable collections include Sirens Knuckles and Boots (1963), Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), and Stubborn Hope (1978). His poetry oeuvre spanned decades and explored themes of resistance, protest, and hope in the face of oppression.

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    Dennis Vincent Brutus (1924-2009) was a South African poet and activist. He published several collections of poetry dealing with his experiences of racism in South Africa and exile. Some of his most notable collections include Sirens Knuckles and Boots (1963), Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), and Stubborn Hope (1978). His poetry oeuvre spanned decades and explored themes of resistance, protest, and hope in the face of oppression.

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    The poetry oeuvre of

    Dennis Vincent Brutus (1924–2009)

    Yet somewhere lingers the stubborn hope


    thus to endure can be a kind of fight,
    preserve some value, assert some faith
    and even have a kind of worth.

    Dennis Brutus, “Stubborn Hope”

    1963 – Sirens Knuckles and Boots. Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari Productions; Evanston:
    Northwestern University Press.
    1968 – Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison. London:
    Heinemann.
    1970 – Poems from Algiers. Austin, Texas: African and Afro-American Studies and
    Research Center.
    1970 – Thoughts Abroad. (ps. John Bruin). Del Valle, Texas: Troubadour Press.
    1973 – A Simple Lust. London: Heinemann.
    1975 – China Poems. Austin, Texas: African and Afro-American Studies and
    Research Center.
    1978 – Strains. Wayne Kamin and Chip Dameron (eds.). Del Valle, Texas:
    Troubadour Press.
    1978 – Stubborn Hope. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press; London: Heinemann.
    1984 – Salutes and Censures. Enugu, Nigeria: Fourth Dimension.
    1989 – Airs and Tributes. Camden, New Jersey: Whirlwind Press.
    1993 – Still the Sirens. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Pennywhistle Press.
    2004 – Remembering Soweto. Lamont B. Steptoe (ed.). Camden, New Jersey:
    Whirlwind Press.
    2005 – Leafdrift. Lamont B. Steptoe (ed.). Camden, New Jersey: Whirlwind Press.
    2006 – Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader. Aisha Kareem and Lee Sustar (eds.).
    Chicago: Haymarket Books; Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal
    Press.
    2010 – (70 unpublished poems). Worcester, MA: Worcester State College (pending).

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