Skinned / Antjie Krog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krog, Antjie

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

Afrikaans

English

Subjects (All):

Krog, Antjie--Translations into English.

Krog, Antjie.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

173 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2013]

Language Note:

Translations from Afrikaans and indigenous languages.

Summary:

Krog selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career. Part One contains poems about writing, family, and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring a long epic poem based on the life of Lady Anne Barnard from Scotland, who accompanied her husband to Cape Town and lived in the castle there from 1797 until 1802. They were written during the height of apartheid and Lady Anne is chosen as representative of the colonial vision. Part Three contains extracts from several speakers who lived in the land before the likes of Lady Anne arrived. Included here are interviews with inhabitants of the stone desert, three re-workings of Bushmen or Xam narratives, as well as a translation of an oral Xhosa praise poem. Part Four represents the political turmoil of South Africa and the divisions within Africa. The poems come from volumes that explored how blacks and whites identifying with the oppressed were removed from official history. The author has taken the liberty to change some of the previous translations and shift content in order to fit this new selection -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Extenuating Circumstances

poet becoming 19

marital song 20

sonnet of the hot flushes 22

writing ode 23

the men you were 32

my words of love 33

the day surrenders to its sadness 34

illness 35

morning tea 36

how do you say this 37

arrivals 39

ma will be late 41

transparency of the sole 42

for my daughter 44

for my son 45

extenuating circumstances 46

man and wife 47

as the tale was told 49

avowal 51

paternoster 52

B The Lady as Allegory

Lady Anne Barnard at the Castle of Good Hope 55

"I think I am the first woman"- Lady Anne on Table Mountain 56

from the Castle at Cape of Good Hope 58

Lady Anne Barnard looks out on Table Bay 59

Lady Anne looks out again from the Castle of Good Hope 61

Lady Anne Barnard: remembered for her parties in my history book 62

Lady Anne paints a watercolour of the Mission at Genadendal 64

Lady Anne's inland diary 67

Lady Anne leaves the Cape 66

Lady Anne as guide because a hero needs a bard 69

Lady Anne to Andrew Barnard in the Cape 70

Andrew Barnard at the Cape to Lady Anne in London 71

Lady Anne in Wimpole 72

Lady Anne got back 73

neither family nor friends says Lady Anne 74

ending I 75

C Colour Never Comes Alone

nine narratives from the stone-desert in 1999:

1 Grief Fanner of Eksteenfontein 79

2 Maria Johanna Domroch of Kubus 79

3 old nomadic movement patterns 80

4 goatfarmer oom Jakobus de Wet speaks poetry 80

5 the narrative of stone 82

6 on the banks of the Gariep river 82

7 narrative of a diamond sorter 83

8 narrative of another diamond sorter 84

9 the goats 64

/xam narratives (1873-1879):

the wind 84

what the stars say 88

eaten by a lion 89

the young man and the lion 90

translations of praise poems from African languages:

praise poem for Pheladi (P Mamogoho) 93

until you give me a drink of water (C T Msimang) 96

living the moons of the Pedi calendar 99

praise poem for Desmond and Leah Tutu on his eightieth birthday 101

Table Mountain rondeau in four parts 104

D VernacularWhite

land 111

Bessie 112

every day I treat you as if you were mine 114

scar- 116

-tissue 117

lament 118

letter-poem lullaby for Ntombizana Atoo 121

toilet poem 125

nightmare of A Samuel born Krog 126

a one dimensional song for the northern Freestate, more specifically Middenspruit* 127

in transit-a cycle of the early nineties:

(a) first Christmas weekend under the state of emergency 1988 129

(b) refused march at Kroonstad Monday 23 October 1989 130

(c) Brentpark march 1990 131

(d) 1992 132

(e) 1994 (before the election) 133

(f) 1995 (after the election) 133

litany 135

some seasonal observations of Table Mountain 136

country of grief and grace:

(a) between you and me 141

(b) in the beginning is seeing 141

(c) speechless I stand 142

(d) because of you 142

(e) this body bereft 143

(f) what does one do with the old 143

(g) but if the old is not guilty 144

becomings:

1 (Citadel) 145

2 (Beginning: Gorée) 146

3 (Griot Songs) 146

4 (Griot's Story Told on the Niger) 147

5 (River: N'ger-n-gereo) 150

7 (Beverage) 151

8 (Boat) 152

9 (Free From the Tyranny of One) 152

10 (Poet Becoming) 153

E Body Bereft

it is true 157

since 158

five menopausal sonnets: like death in my arms 160

bronze bull of Lavigny 161

short visit 162

hormone sonnet 163

God, Death, Love 164

leave me a lonely began 165

when tight is loose 167

softsift of the hourglass 169

some seasonal observations of Table Mountain 170

on my behalf 174.

Notes:

An original, not previously published, collection of translations.

ISBN:

9781609804633

1609804635

OCLC:

802319309