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Green in black and white times - Conversations with Douglas Livingstone (Paperback) Loot Price: R117
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Green in black and white times - Conversations with Douglas Livingstone (Paperback): Michael Chapman

Green in black and white times - Conversations with Douglas Livingstone (Paperback)

Michael Chapman

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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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Imprint: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: August 2016
Authors: Michael Chapman
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 978-1-86914-319-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 1-86914-319-1
Barcode: 9781869143190

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