Praise for Breyten Breytenbach's Return to Paradise:"This wonderful book . . . is written with a wild heart and an unrelenting eye, and is fueled by the sort of rage that produces great literature."—T
?The greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. ? No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime.”?The New YorkerThis eclectic and
J. M. Coetzee has described Breyten Breytenbach as "able to descend effortlessly into the Africa of the poetic unconscious and return with the rhythm and the words, the words in the rhythm, that give