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Things I Have Withheld (Hardcover, Main)
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Things I Have Withheld (Hardcover, Main)
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List price R467
Loot Price R381
Discovery Miles 3 810
You Save R86 (18%)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE In this astonishing
collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei
Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are
kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this
silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk
truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the
crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move
throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood.
Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Liam Neeson,
Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women's tears,
questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and
imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice. With
both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his
poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic
achievement: a work of beauty which challenges us to interrogate
what seems unsayable and why - our actions, defence mechanisms,
imaginations and interactions - and those of the world around us.
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