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Green in black and white times - Conversations with Douglas Livingstone (Paperback)
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Green in black and white times - Conversations with Douglas Livingstone (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 1 170
You Save R33 (22%)
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In conversations serious, humorous, ironic, ribald internationally
acclaimed poet-scientist Douglas Livingstone and leading literary
critic Michael Chapman struck up a warm, at times iconoclastic
friendship. Over lunch they exchanged opinions, insights and
anecdotes, not only on poetry, science and society, but also on
personal aspects of modern life: love and loss, sexual and
spiritual intimations, and city living; generally, on the value of
our `uncommon humanity'. Their conversations recollected in this
book take readers through the black-and-white times of political
turbulence in South Africa of the 1970s and 1980s to a climate,
after apartheid, more attuned to Livingstone's abiding concern:
how, as both scientist and poet, to heal the Earth, our only home.
Along the way, we meet a cast from Jan Smuts, Mohandas Gandhi and
Albert Luthuli to Alan Paton, Mazisi Kunene, Breyten Breytenbach
and the `Soweto' poets. We shift abruptly from Nobel laureate Wole
Soyinka to the TV soap, Dallas. With clarity and wit, Michael
Chapman intersperses the conversations with a fresh consideration
of a unique achievement: Douglas Livingstone's journey into the
`two cultures' of art and science. Douglas Livingstone worked at
the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Durban. His
poems are collected in A Ruthless Fidelity: The Collected Poems of
Douglas Livingstone.
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