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LADY ONE; Of love and other poems

LADY ONE; Of love and other poems

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LADY ONE; Of love and other poems

by BREYTENBACH, Breyten

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0151007624
ISBN 13
9780151007622
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NY: Harcourt, 2002. First printing. 8vo, pp. 84. Author's presentation on half-title; "For Bill and Sonja | with my warmest regards | Breyten Breytenbach | NY, April 2007" Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. About as new in dj.

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Please deliver me, Lady, of prattle and cant As I bury one hundred years of war and want Evoking an extraordinary range of settings and images--from "Africa where blood blackens / and tiny desert creatures have to lick / the dew from their flanks to survive" to the havens of exile, and the "snow once again over Paris / this morning sheeting light / under grey blankets"--this searching verse explores love and loss, light and darkness, war and want, and wounds that do not heal. The texture of nostalgic, sometimes bitter memories of childhood in Breytenbach's African homeland is as palpable here as the vigorous exultation of love found amid the ruins of an earlier life. And pervading all the experience rendered is a sense of wonder and awe that "the light lies silvery smooth / in the furrows dug by the farmer / to lead astray the drought / and bring succour to the runner beans, / the maize, tomatoes, melons, peppers, / onions, garlic, potatoes / and love."

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Bookseller
Second Life Books Inc US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
57154
Title
LADY ONE; Of love and other poems
Author
BREYTENBACH, Breyten
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0151007624
ISBN 13
9780151007622
Publisher
Harcourt
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
2002
Keywords
literature; poetry; signed

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