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Die Singende Hand: Versamelde Gedigte 1984 – 2014 is Breyten Breytenbach se derde versamelbundel.
Dit vorm ’n drieluik met die vorige twee bande, Ysterkoei-Blues en Die Ongedanste Dans.
In Gode van Papier poog die digter om gestalte te gee aan die moderne mens se gode: gode (ook buite die tradisionele sin van die woord) met voete van klei wat op hul plek gesit en gehou word.
Hoewel die woord "gode" dikwels in die bundel gebruik word, dui dit baie keer nie op gode in die tradisionele sin van die woord nie.
Allerlei dinge, tot die gedigte self, word gode in hierdie bundel.
This study provides a detailed account of the "Fables," including
humour, the representation of animals, the literary qualities and
the "moraliste" core. Dr Slater brings to light veiled satirical
attacks, allusion to forgotten works and literature, and traces the
obscure currents of thought, all this in the service of explicating
the "fable" element.
A scholarly edition of works by Guillaume de Saluste, Sieur du
Bartas. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with
an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The first comprehensive biography of this iconic artist to appear in English. Richly illustrated with 160 photographs. Since her dramatic death at the age of 31 the name Ingrid Jonker has been linked to that of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath - legends who died young. In her first biography to appear in English, the frail figure of Jonker as a child, a young poet, daughter of a prominent politician, wife, mother, mistress of a famous author, lover and rebel is portrayed against the backdrop of revolt against South Africa's policies of censorship and apartheid.
Today's innovative poets no longer express their dissenting voice
on the printed page but in the experimental realm of contemporary
media, where holograms, video projections, and even biotechnology
form the basis of a new syntax. Celebrated poet and artist Eduardo
Kac's" Media Poetry" is the first anthology to document this
radically new form, which is taking language beyond the confines of
verse and into the non-linear world of digital interactivity and
hyperlinkage.This unparalleled volume takes up all the exhilarating
incarnations of media poetry, from real-time text generation and
spatiotemporal discontinuities to immateriality and visual tempo,
exploring the international group of revolutionary poets
responsible for such innovations. By embracing the vast
possibilities made available by new media, the artists featured in
this anthology have become the poetic pioneers of the next
millennium.
F.R. Scott is one of the most remarkable Canadians of his
generation. His is a poet - most notably a satirical one - whose
anger and impudence have for forty years deflated the pompous,
shocked the complacent, and castigated the greedy. He is a lawyer
who has vigorously opposed censorship and defended civil rights,
and whose knowledge of the law is equalled by his passion for
justice; and he is a political and social philosopher who helped
form the CCF and New Democratic Parties, and who is now a member of
the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Readers who
have been moved and entertained by his poetry in previous books and
in innumerable journals will welcome this bringing together of his
best work in one volume. Readers new to his work (if there are any
in Canada) will discover a rare combination of wit, intellect, and
compassion - 'an informed mind perfectly co-ordinated with a
civilized heart.'
Foreword by George C. Schoolfield>
This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English
poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and
containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour, features a
beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete
text of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author
written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for
adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than
this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines
religious and social values. Pearl is apparently an elegy on the
death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal
loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate
on much less tangible matters. Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance,
belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special
favourite of Tolkien's. The three translations represent the
complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals, and are
uniquely accompanied in this special deluxe slipcased edition with
the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial
Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.
The poetry of Michelangelo offers an insight into one of the
greatest artists of all time, and is a notable literary achievement
in its own right. This text lays out the broad chronological
evolution of the poems and clarifies both their meaning and the
verbal artistry that shaped their construction. The poetry is
always quoted in Italian and in translation.
Martjie Bosman se debuutbundel, wat in 2003 met die Ingrid
Jonkerprys vir poesie bekroon is. Die verse in hierdie versameling
getuig van sterk beheer oor verstegniek, sober eenvoud en
uitgebreide kennis van die breer literatuurlandskap. Dit spreek ook
van intense meelewing met die geskiedenis en die natuur.
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