Lady One : Of Love and Other Poems
de Breyten Breytenbach
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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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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- G0151007624I4N10
- Título
- Lady One : Of Love and Other Poems
- Autor
- Breyten Breytenbach
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- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151007624
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007622
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
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