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Reservoir Voices (Paperback)
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Reservoir Voices (Paperback)
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List price R505
Loot Price R410
Discovery Miles 4 100
You Save R95 (19%)
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Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and
otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues
or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other
ways of being in the world. The riddling poems of "Reservoir
Voices" add a further dimension to these explorations, inspired by
an autumn sojourn in America where he would sit by the edge of a
reservoir, trying to cope with loneliness by contemplating black
swans, blue waves, seagulls, trees and rocks: 'It was in that state
of fascinated dislocation, of almost mesmerized emptiness, that the
voices came with suggestions, images, memories, delights, horrors,
rhythms, insights and calm, irrefutable insistence that it was they
who were speaking, not me. To surrender to loneliness is to admit
new presences, new voices into that abject emptiness. So I wrote
down what I heard the voices say and, at moments, sing.'
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