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Oleander / Fiona Zerbst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zerbst, Fiona.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South African poetry (English).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (60 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athlone, South Africa : Modjaji Books, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Oleander explores life's complexities, both beautiful and poisonous-love, death, art, the aftermath of war and genocide, travel, religion, revelation. More wide-ranging than Zerbst's previous volumes, Oleander charts experiences through which the self may be transformed.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Remembering S-21, Cambodia; Moths; Relics; Learning to box; Impermanence; Comfort; Red plum blossoms; Hart Crane, 1899-1932; Shepherdess; Death of a dog; Beach-town revisited; July; Possibilities; Volcanic; Politics; The dying fish; Crime fiction; Butterflies; North star; Reading Thom Gunn; Wings; The Temptation of St Anthony; Leaving the summer-house; Beyond; Laguna Frias, Patagonia; Touch; On a lake in Patagonia; Legacy - after Frida Kahlo; In praise of loss; Fasting; Burials; Shredding; Patterns; In Saigon; Light; Beside the Nile
- Back Cover
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06349-2
- 9786613063496
- 1-920397-13-2
- 1-920397-64-7
- 1-920397-50-7
- OCLC:
- 830165408
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