Author : Metelerkamp, Joan
Publisher : Modjaji Books
ISBN 13 : 1920590536
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Book Synopsis Now the World Takes These Breaths by : Metelerkamp, Joan
Download or read book Now the World Takes These Breaths written by Metelerkamp, Joan and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we have come to expect with Joan Metelerkamp's work, these poems can be read individually or, more rewardingly, as a body, from cover to cover. Formal but fluent, the 'sonnets' ('soundings') of this sequence marry cycle and narrative, old and new, secular and sacred, momentary and eternal. This is a strange and immediately familiar book -: at its simplest it traces the story of a mother's 'letting-go' her grown children, a daughter's relocation to the Northern hemisphere, a wedding, shadows of deaths and losses, sparks of joy. It recalls the story of Demeter and Persephone, but goes on from there in immediately accessible South African, contemporary terms. Above all, it celebrates!