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Presbyopia (Paperback)
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Presbyopia (Paperback)
Series: Vagabond, No. 4
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Loot Price R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
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"My sight if fades and fading faded forms reveals; ageing looks
beyond its age to shrivelled centuries beyond decades." The
presbyopic poet cannot focus on "the self as subject", but only on
what is distant. This collection of poetry attempts to detach the
writer from the obsessions that have dominated poetry for so long:
sentiment, love, feelings and the autobiographical in general. To
completely dispose of these would be dogmatic, and Cameron argues
that some of the greatest poets are both presbyopic and myopic.
"And yet he fell apart, and headstrong held to that one truth,
while falling and parting for his way, his lonely way of wanting
justice for the damned." This poetry is unfashionably but
unashamedly political and philosophical. Cameron continues to
express in another form the contempt he feels for utilitarianism in
general, and in particular its crude and extreme variety, as
peddled by neo-conservative politicians and their intellectual
bag-carriers. At the same time, he attempts to invent new poetic
forms. Inspired by some Italian poets (especially Eugenio Montale),
he uses metre and some rhyme, but then breaks it up by introducting
enjambement and internal rhymes as well. There are English
influences too: most surprisingly Rudyard Kipling's "Mary Gloster"
in part inspired "Zarathustra's Last Interview", the longest
narrative poem in this collection. "We thank thee Lord for having
made us free to rule the world and liberate its inner need to be so
much more like us." This poetry is unashamedly anti-imperialist.
"That war with wings of death does twist and crush and kill the
flimsy leathered bag of flesh and bone and liquid life that spills
upon the sands, requires no second telling." This poetry is
unashamedly anti-war. "Only this empty moment which I spectate is
in my clasp; amongst this fractured stillness, something knowable
comes close and just eludes the closing fingers of my mind's grasp"
This poetry is for those who have more doubts than certainties.
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