BLACK GHOST BOOKS

greyheart

"Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost"  Albert Ayler  

At once poetry and an ars poetica, a novel and its undoing, songlike and shattered, greyheart attacks language's fissures to explode its most enigmatic dualisms: the sublime and the monstrous, love and hate, freedom and enslavement, black and white.  

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Jah Hills

Set between Kwafindoda, where the nature is alive and ghosts exist even before someone is dead, and South Africa's gritty urban townships, Jah Hills explores the conflict between life and death, folklore and philosophy, so as to write the Unlanguaged World of today. A breathless journey, at once fevered and visionary, it invites the reader to find wilderness and brutality in the banal, the beautiful in the bizarre and to seek answers, not in the sum, but in the derangement of its many seething parts.

A Half Century Thing

Published in 2015, on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday and a quarter of a century after his debut Horns for Hondo (1990), Lesego Rampolokeng's A Half Century Thing is a devoted heresy, a sermon on the word, on politics and aesthetics that challenges what poetry does, what it can do, even what it is willing to address as a form.