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Article: Cemetery of Mind.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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Published posthumously, Cemetery of Mind easily brings to mind Christopher Okigbo's Labyrinths (1971) in many ways. With Dambudzo Marechera's death, African literature lost a young star whose meteoric appearance has left an illuminating trail. Though better known for his collection of short stories The House of Hunger (1978), Marechera in fact deserves far more praise as a poet. He is highly imagistic, fresh, shocking, and delightful despite the pervading angry and sad mood in his poems. His life and writing remind me of Cesar Vallejo and Osip Mandelstam in some ways.
Compiled by Flora Veit-Wild, who has done an excellent job of assembling the poems, Cemetery of Mind ...
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