"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 ...
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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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Very Good+ in Very Good+, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book Complete letter line from A to K; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.
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Good in good dust jacket. First Edition hardcover with complete 'letter' line. Tight binding; spine slightly slanted. Interior pages clean and unmarked, but beginning to show faint traces of foxing here and there. Dust jacket shows minor edge wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 84 p. Audience: General/trade.
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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.
