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Now The World Takes These Breaths, by by Joan Metelerkamp
Now The World Takes These Breaths, by by Joan Metelerkamp
As we have come to expect with Joan Metelerkamp's work, these poems can be read individually or, more rewardingly, as a body, from cover to cover.
Formal but fluent, the sonnets' (soundings) of this sequence marry cycle and narrative, old and new, secular and sacred, momentary and eternal. This is a strange and immediately familiar book - at its simplest it traces the story of a mother's "letting-go" her grown children, a daughter's relocation to the Northern hemisphere, a wedding, shadows of deaths and losses, sparks of joy. It recalls the story of Demeter and Persephone, but goes on from there in immediately accessible South African, contemporary terms. Above all, it celebrates!
Date: 2014
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 56
ISBN: 78-1-920590-53-6
Author: Joan Metelerkamp
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