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Sewe is die getal van heiligheid, van voltooiing en vervulling, ’n volmaakte sirkel. Gilbert Gibson se vierde digbundel is ’n konfrontasie met die simboliese lading van hierdie getal, ’n woordestryd teen die wete dat voltooiing die einde beteken, dat volmaaktheid noodwendig ook die dood impliseer. Die verse verbeeld konkreet dat die poësie begin waar taal verbrokkel; dat die letterkunde juis ontspring uit die verbystering van sinne.
| Автор | Gilbert Gibson |
In Heilige beeste (1945), Opperman se debuutbundel, is die belydende inslag en die religieuse stryd van die Louws se eerste bundels feitlik geheel en al afwesig en beoefen hy ʼn veel meer beeldende poësie as sy voorgangers. Daarby laat vaar hy die chronologiese of achronologiese basis vir sy rubrisering en maak hy ʼn verdeling wat op die temas van “die aardse, die vrou en die Groot-Groot-Gees” uit die titelgedig berus. – J C Kannemeyer.
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
Joernaal van Jorik (1949), is ʼn vyfdelige epiese gedig in kwatryne met gekruiste rym. Die gedig handel oor die geskiedenis van Jorik (ʼn naam wat saamgestel is uit die digter se voorname Diederik Johannes) wat tydens die Tweede Wêreldoorlog in ʼn duikboot as spioen in Kaapstad aankom. Hy leer die land en sy mense, sy verskeidenheid landskappe en kontraste ken en raak verstrik in die politieke situasie en lewenswyse van Suid-Afrika. – J C Kannemeyer
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
Gabeba Baderoon’s debut poetry collection attempts to probe the realm of the unsaid and the ripples that move between words, between people, between bodies. Sometimes the verses trace and explore details that have brought the poet to, in her own words, «arrested instants of loss or witness that break open the surface of the world». It is a collection of poems that brings one to be silent, to be still. By writing the author attempts to «see again». Like «when we are about to fall asleep … and the...
| Автор | Gabeba Baderoon |
In Katastrofes, Breyten se eerste gepubliseerde prosawerk, is bekende elemente wat in sy digkuns ook figureer. Die gepynigde ek bevind hom in ’n absurde wêreld waarin alles aan die verrot is, op soek na identiteit, verwesenliking en troos. Soortgelyke tegnieke as in sy poësie word ook gebruik, soos aaneenskakeling van oënskynlik onverwante assosiasies, gebruik van fantasie, saamvoeg van teenoorgesteldes, alles weergegee met uitsonderlike beeldingsvermoë. Die prosa wyk af van normale perspektiewe...
| Автор | Breyten Breytenbach |
<P>In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted—only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the security state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute. The poems in Just Saying may...
| Автор | Rae Armantrout |
Komas uit ʼn bamboesstok (1979) is geskryf na ʼn ernstige lewersiekte en werk met ʼn hele aantal bekende temas van vroeër, maar deur die besondere verbinding wat bulle met mekaar aangaan, verskyn hulle dikwels in ʼn verrassend-nuwe gedaante. Die motiewe van aftakeling en siekte, beperktheid van menslike lewe en besit, word hier dikwels op ʼn geestige wyse met die gebruik van satire, hekeling, selfspot en ironie aangebied. – J C Kannemeyer
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
Kuns-mis (1964) is ʼn versameling “oorskietverse” wat “die kuns mis”, maar terselfdertyd bemesting is vir latere werk. Dit bevat gedigte wat satiries of hekelend kommentaar lewer op literêre en ander aktualiteite en waarin dikwels gebruik gemaak word van woordspelings, teleskoperings van verskillende woorde in mekaar, dubbelsinnighede en besondere tipografiese rangskikkings. – J C Kannemeyer
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
Dolosse is ʼn losser versameling verse, al is die “dolos”-motief in die betekenis van beskawingsreste of simbole van ʼn verlede en voortekens van ʼn dikwels somber en uitsiglose toekoms ʼn dominerende faktor in die bundel. Die verse het dikwels Europese reisindrukke of die wêreld van Franskraal as agtergrond, maar die basiese problematiek word gekonsentreer op die noodlotsgang van die Afrikanervolk, die ganse Westerse beskawing en die mens in sy aftakeling. – J C Kannemeyer
| Автор | D. J. Opperman |
Edms. Bpk. (1970), dui op die beperktheid van die menslike lewe en besit en die kleiner wêreld van die bundel, dikwels die vertroude terrein van Franskraal. Alhoewel die verse meestal die magtige greep en groot konstruksies van vroeër mis, is die bundel tog as ʼn duidelike eenheid gekonsipieer. – J C Kannemeyer
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
<P>"When history proves useless and consensus chimerical," Donald Revell has written, «the poet's necessity is invention, and this does a lot to explain our century's preference for revision over mimesis.» For Revell, The disruptions of this century have destroyed old illusions of historical continuity: «The consolations of history are furtive,/ then fugitive, then forgotten.» Invoking such contemporary events as the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War, he...
| Автор | Donald Revell |
<P>The world that Donald Revell ponders in these poems replete with contrarieties. The same verbal playfulness and prophetic lyricism that made Revell a 1992 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and a winner of National Poetry Series, Pushcart, and PEN Center USA West awards are in full force in Beautiful Shirt. Here he traverses the rocky terrain of innocence, memory, disillusion, and salvation in a voice at once haunted and elliptical: «This is the world as I have known it./ It has a soft...
| Автор | Donald Revell |
<P>Believing and espousing an American tradition alive in the testimony of Anne Hutchinson, in the prose-poetry of Thoreau, and in the music of Ives, Donald Revell's new poems seek moments of harmony between language and silence. The death of the poet's father and almost concurrent birth of his son form the emotional underpinnings of this meditation on faith. «Every morning, beginning in childhood, / the music of variation sustains / the equal loneliness of every soul.»...
| Автор | Donald Revell |
<P>The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now—these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world,...
| Автор | Robert Bly |
– Letters to Yesenin is considered by many critics to be Harrison’s poetry masterwork – Launches a new series called Copper Canyon Classics—slender, inexpensive paperbacks in a 5 x 7 format, that focus on: o distillations from larger works in Copper Canyon backlist (e.g. Letters to Yesenin currently exists within the 500+ page Shape of the Journey) o reissues o public domain texts o titles under consideration include W.S. Merwin's Spanish Ballads, poems by June...
| Автор | Jim Harrison |
Alhoewel reeds vroeër as motief aanwesig, vind die besinning oor die kunstenaarstaak besondere gestalte in die bundel Engel uit die klip (1950), ʼn titel waarmee hy andermaal die spanning tussen die goddelike en aardse aandui, nou met die aksent op die verlossingsmotief. Nie alle gedigte handel egter oor die kunstenaarstaak nie. – J C Kannemeyer
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
Negester oor Ninevé (1947) is die bevestiging van Opperman se digterskap en bring ʼn verdere ontwikkeling ná die debuutbundel deurdat die basiese drie “motiewe” nouer verbind en die afsonderlike verse in ʼn groter mate by ʼn omvattende konsepsie ingeskakel word. – J C Kannemeyer
| Автор | D.J. Opperman |
Written poetry about a winter storm that is especially beautiful. In the midst of a winter storm, think of the joyous days. <br><br>I graduated from Lehman College with a degree in English literature.
| Автор | Laura Grossman |
* This story of learning to write haiku allows any newcomer to learn the basics and the experienced to enjoy a fresh approach * Readers are easily encouraged to read more haiku or to even write it for themselves or others * The author's new friends show the joys of pursuing classic arts even in very modern times
| Автор | Abigail Friedman |
In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of the divine (he is a religious poet, there are no two ways about it, though perhaps there are twenty) can be effected only by a demonic insistence upon abjection, upon the descent. He shrives himself, and his poems show the marks of the lash–they are the lash–and his vision is naturalized to a degree that would astonish his predecessors, that astonishes us. This is a shocking poetry, and the shock is not of recognition, but of...
| Автор | Timothy Liu |
Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a human beatbox, Jessica Simpson applying for arts grants or the Swedish Chef reciting T. S. Eliot? Davis uses every literary form available to revel in and rearrange pop culture. Even the...
| Автор | Brian Joseph Davis |
The passionate life and violent death of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898–1936) retain an enduring fascination for readers around the world. Murdered by Nationalists at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, Lorca died at the peak of his creative powers. He remains his country's most widely translated writer, surpassed only by Cervantes in terms of critical commentary.This selection includes 55 of the 68 poems that comprised Lorca's 1921 Libro de poemas, all of them in their...
| Автор | Федерико Лорка |
With less content in my life I am infinitely more content Against the backdrop of a sibling’s death, an eating disorder, and a few very dismal dating relationships, Villa Negativa looks for laughter behind darkness: the intruder who politely removes her shoes, the fabricator whose closest relationship is with fibreglass, the anorexic who sends the Diet Coke back because it tastes too good. Meditative and mischievous, confessional and philosophical, sincere and sly by turns, Sharon...
| Автор | Sharon McCartney |