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Set Thy Love in Order - New & Selected Poems (Paperback)
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Set Thy Love in Order - New & Selected Poems (Paperback)
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List price R400
Loot Price R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
You Save R27 (7%)
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Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of
some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romer's four previous
collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The
title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina
questo amore, O tu che m' ami - set thy love in order, o thou who
lovest me. Romer's central theme is encapsulated by these words,
and his prolonged and painstaking exploration of the
'intermittences of the heart', frequently carried out with a
Francophile self-consciousness and rueful wit, constitute so many
variations on the theme. Romer's New & Selected articulates the
constant oscillation between love, loss and longing, and the
religious desire for 'refuge' or 'higher things', and how
powerfully these can come to rhythm the life of the mind and the
emotions. His more recent work has included poems of love and
mourning for his parents, and elegies for friends. Derek Mahon
singled out Romer's first collection Idols for its 'emotional
candour and intellectual clarity', and since then the poet has
endeavoured to turn the light of the intellect (and the wit) on the
frequently chaotic and contradictory material of the heart.
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