Burnt offering / Joan Metelerkamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metelerkamp, Joan, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athlone, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Burnt Offering is Joan Metelerkamp's seventh colllection of poems. The title comes from a poem in a cycle that embodies the labours of the medieval alchemists - heating and burning, transformation of passionate intensity, the search for an enduring element. In the process malignant doubt is burnt off, and what takes its place is trust in the everyday: ""take this day, here, take it all its clarity, all its gold"" - Like all of Metelerkamp's work, these generous poems draw on and weave together, with her distinctive energy and passion, the details of family and rural life, dreams, landscapes an

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue; Points on Poems; Penelope; Alchemical Incantations; Burning; Burnt offering; Dissolving in its own water; Sea; Down to earth; Incarnate; Rock; Rock; The Hill; Where are you; Bury the dead; Sorting it out; Marry Maree; Come together; Intact; Believing; Body of work; Came back wanting; Twee Rivieren; Crossing the Crocodile; Notes and Acknowledgements; Back Cover

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

1-283-06341-7

9786613063410

1-920397-15-9

1-920397-56-6

1-920397-44-2

OCLC:

830165718