Strange fruit : poems / by Helen Moffett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moffett, Helen.

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:

Strange Fruit is a courageous debut with a remarkable range in theme and tone, from the nostalgic to the comedic to the bawdy, and to the angry, the melancholic and the steadfast and comforting. It will delight, shock, anger, induce laughter, shock more, delight more. And make you blush. It's a full range. There are poems of brutally honest self-scrutiny - the heart of the collection being a series of poems on the ageing body, loss of love and infertility - and there are poems that capture landscapes with imagist skill and the botanist's detail.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Writer's Block; Another Country; To Christina Rossetti; Evening stables; Gathering waterblommetjies; What mountains dream of; Blessings; On hearing of the death, by suicide, of an old friend; Libra rising; Real magic; Angel; We will ght them at La Playa; Strange fruit; Mined; Reply to Ariel; The Sentinel; Valediction; Always; In praise of younger men; Amphibian; Homo erectus; After sex; Baby shower; The ultrasound; Geology lesson; The ovary in the arm; See through; Battle stations; At thirty-six; Postscript; Vigil

My daughterEnvy; Pushkin; In Cape Town; Fade; Window of opportunity; Relativity; The disa that found us; Cedar and cinnamon; The flamenco teacher; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-06353-0

9786613063533

1-920397-14-0

1-920397-68-X

1-920397-54-X

OCLC:

830165710