A Change of TongueRandom House, 2003 - 376 pages In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey toward each other, particularly when the space and places form which we depart are - at least on the surface - so vastly different? Ranging freely and often wittily across many terrains, this brave book by one of South Africa's foremost writers and poets provides a unique and compelling discourse on living creatively in Africa today |
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... poet in Afrikaans with a husband and children and a job . And why is poetry so different from prose ? Poetry sells less . But more crucial is that a poem does not come like an invited guest . It doesn't care about your whereabouts . It ...
... poet in Afrikaans with a husband and children and a job . And why is poetry so different from prose ? Poetry sells less . But more crucial is that a poem does not come like an invited guest . It doesn't care about your whereabouts . It ...
Page 291
... poet function here ? The elderly Malian poet Albecaye Ousmane Kounta with his billowing robe whispers into the microphone : the griot is the double shadow of the people , it is the word and the journey of the word . We are but birds ...
... poet function here ? The elderly Malian poet Albecaye Ousmane Kounta with his billowing robe whispers into the microphone : the griot is the double shadow of the people , it is the word and the journey of the word . We are but birds ...
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... poet . ' Yes , but there is an important difference . In Egypt we have had a written poetic tra- dition from time immemorial . So it is not because we cannot write that we are orally inclined . ' ' One could say then that you are not ...
... poet . ' Yes , but there is an important difference . In Egypt we have had a written poetic tra- dition from time immemorial . So it is not because we cannot write that we are orally inclined . ' ' One could say then that you are not ...
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