Canary's Songbook

Name: Canary's Songbook
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ISBN: 9781857547634

ISBN-10: 1857547632

ISBN-13: 9781857547634

Edition: 2005

Authors: Karen. Press

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The power of history to shape people and politics is explored in this collection of finely wrought poems. The desire to find ancestors who can be invoked as sources of wisdom, or remembered as examples of imprudence, is a central preoccupation of these poems that are given additional potency because of South Africa's painful dialogue with its own past. While the poems dwell on South Africa's need to recover and learn from its history, they are also an affirmation of the universality of this theme that places South Africa within a global culture in which countries and their citizens struggle to forge whole identities from the fragments of history they inherit.

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



The sea roaring softly


Broken bits of the past


Knocking series


That house


When you're older you'll understand


Seance


Shrines


Treasure trail


Stones for my pockets


The poem each woman poet writes


Men wear the secret masks


Living children and dead children


In Jakob's house


Ox blood poisons the ground with longing


Visiting home


He can't explain


Outside and inside the temple


Corruption - a lexicon


Evolution : details


How her mother prepared her


Engineers of dreams


In the cradle of humankind


Every revolution begins in the streets


Tannie Lettie plays the guitar


Prometheus resigns from the party


Only a good man


The personal assistant


Redistributing it


Preparing to govern


Oral tradition


Shopping


Stop child abuse


Wind parted the buildings


Three-stringed necklace


So very sick


Triptych


Flakes of the light falling


Book


It seems that if you write


This other place


In doorways


Between them


In my sleep


The hurting pillow


Cured


Walking songs for African abroad


Everywhere in the Duomo


Globalisation 1


Globalisation 2


Letters to the president


Distantly heard signals


Aching


Collioure, September 2001


Soft


Apprehension, north


A certain history


Wednesday morning in the cafe caprice


He is often mentioned in books


Reaching siran


Translation rights


Ends that hang over the lake


The work the poets do


The canary's songbook