"For Nelson Mandela" (1987)

New York City: Seaver Books/Henry Holt (book, anthology), 1987.
8.5" x 6" x 1", 256 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-8050-0581-1.

For Nelson Mandela, an anthology edited by Jacques Derrida and Mustapha Tlili, published by Seaver Books/Henry Holt (New York City) in 1987.

Burroughs contributes "The Parable of the Silent Heads", pp. 113-116.

This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books (Boston, Massachusetts).

Shoaf II.219.

Contents: 

• Mustapha Tlili: "The Meaning of an Act of Compassion and Rigor: Preface to the American Edition" 
• Dominique Lecoq: "Foreword to the French Edition in 1985"
• Nadine Gordimer: "Nelson Mandela: A Tribute and Excerpt from Burger's Daughter"
• Jacques Derrida: "The Laws of Reflection: Nelson Mandela, in Admiration"
• Samuel Beckett: "Brief Dream"
• Susan Sontag: "This Man, This Country"
• Allen Ginsberg: "Far Away and 'On the Conduct of the World Seeking Beauty Against Government'"
• Jorge Amado: "Nelson Mandela in Brazil"
• John Ashbery: "Drab Shutters"
• Michel Leiris: "Apartheid"
• Mustapha Tlili: "The Future Itself"
• Joan Goytisolo: "In the Icy Waters of Selfish Calculation"
• Richard Howard: "The Foreigner Remembered by a Local Man"
• Kateb Yacine: "One Step Forward, Three Steps Back"
• William S. Burroughs: "The Parable of the Silent Heads"
• Ntozake Shange: "Passages: Earth Space"
• Adonis: "Like a Field of Love"
• Olympe Bhêly-Quênum: "Mashoka Elfu Moja (The Thousand Axes Rebellion)"
• Edmond Jabès: "With Nelson Mandela"
• Heiner Müller: "Woyzeck – The Wound"
• Severo Sarduy: "Mood Indigo"
• Hélène Cixous: "The Parting of the Cake"
• Joyce Carol Oates: "For Nelson Mandela and Desire"
• John Irving: "When A Country So Grossly Mistreats Its Citizens, It Heaps Shame Upon Itself and Trying to Save Peggy Sneed"
• Maurice Blanchot: "Our Responsibility"
• Biographical Notes