In the latest issue of Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing poets, writers, academics and activists from around the world pay tribute to the indomitable spirit of South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus, who turns 80 on November 28, 2004.

Including two typically engaged new poems by Brutus himself, this special issue features tributes from Nobel laureates and fellow South Africans Desmond Tutu and Nadine Gordimer, poems by many of Brutus's friends and admirers from South Africa, Nigeria, and the United States, (including Peter Horn, Keith Gottschalk, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Martin Espada, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Marcus Rediker, Bernth Lindfors, and Gabeba Baderoon), as well as anecdotes and commentary on Brutus's influence on contemporary poetry and politics in South Africa and worldwide.
We have also been able to re-print some of Brutus's "China Poems" in his familiar calligraphy, and the issue is further enhanced visually by the inclusion of three pictures by acclaimed South African photographer David Goldblatt and a number of portraits of Brutus from the late 70s on.

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