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Yield (Paperback)
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Yield (Paperback)
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Loot Price R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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Three definitions of the word Yield give meaning to the odyssey
undergone in Claire Dyer's third collection: a journey which sees a
son become a daughter, and a mother a poet for both of them.
Charting these transitions, the poems take us through territories
known and familiar - landscapes of childhood, family and home -
into further regions where inner lives alter, outer ones are
reimagined. Whether evoking clinic visits, throwing away old
boyhood clothes, grieving over what's lost, these honest and
unashamed poems build to celebrate that place at the heart of
motherhood where gender is no differentiator and love the gain.
'The actual things of the world are everywhere in Claire Dyer's
Yield - thick socks, Glenfiddich, bathrobes, Swarfega, Swedish
Meatball Wraps - and in the spaces between move families, friends,
lovers, their interrelations astutely picked out as the unsaid is
made solid. But such rooted settings don't prevent flight. Any poet
who can end a poem with the lines "the bones in its spine small
white discs of" or "Fuck the gob-lin. Rock it" has earned the right
to our attention.' ~ Matthew Caley 'There is so much that is
uncompromising in Claire Dyer's poems: the cruel precision of each
word, line and image, and the sharply perfect intelligence of every
metaphor and conceit. And yet Yield is a warm embrace of a book. A
chronicle of love, generosity and ethics, Yield is a restorative
piece of writing - a solace.' ~ Kathryn Maris
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