SOURCE: "Passion and Poetry in the Works of Dennis Brutus," in Black Academy River, Vol. 2, No. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 1971, pp. 41-54.
In the following excerpt, Ndu maintains that the presence of passion is critical for creating great poetry and he argues that Brutus's poetry is limited by what the author calls his "cautious " emotional involvement in the anti-apartheid movement.
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