Spirit brides / Togara Muzanenhamo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muzanenhamo, Togara, 1975-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

71 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 2006.

Summary:

Togara Muzanenhamo's first book of poems brings to life the worlds of the familiar and the unfamiliar. He takes us from his vivid childhood in Zimbabwe to the Netherlands, Belgium, France and England, making, as he goes, stories that coax meaning out of time and change. A parallel world, partly hidden from the poet, provides a fractured and treacherous reflection where dream discovers a new order. The reality of Spirit Brides is a world of stone, steel and air: murderous and ephemeral. The plains of the veldt in Zimbabwe are as tangible as the bookstore in Antwerp or the bottle-shop in Paris. The language here fills some of the troubling silences of our time, engaging death, violence and, most particularly, love.

Contents:

Captain of the Lighthouse 7

The Pale Saint 8

Nationalist Archives 9

Smoke 12

The Craft 13

Six Francs Seventy-five 14

The Pool 16

The Laughing Wood 18

Den Haag 19

Pine Thicket 20

Views without Buildings 21

Tea and Sandwiches 23

The Dawn Chorus 24

Roads 25

The Boy Who Ate Clouds for Tea 26

The Small Room 27

The Shape of a Thousand Things 28

Skaters 29

Late Night and the Road 30

Helpless Goodbyes 31

Excursion 32

The Armchair 33

The Ornithologist's Daughter 34

Leaves 35

Chemins Perdus 36

The Slide 37

Half Untold 38

Epworth 40

The Spirit Brides 41

Arguments Left 43

Pallbearer 44

Petals 45

Monday Men 46

The Conductor 47

Man in the Bowler Hat 48

Skin-box 49

The Red Room 50

Strangers 51

The Last Days of Winter 53

Lineage 54

Photographer 56

Tomorrow 58

Oxygen 59

Aubade 60

Gumiguru 61.

ISBN:

1857548523

9781857548525

OCLC:

65470055