Difficult gifts : poems / by Dawn Garisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garisch, Dawn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African poetry (English).

Human body--Poetry.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athlone, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Forty-two poems by Dawn Garisch, a doctor who writes, a poet who walks, a researcher who dances. She lives in Cape Town near the mountain and the sea and has two grown sons. Her last novel, Trespass, was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright page; Title page; Contents; The Edge; Great Fish; Elephant Park; The Proper Use Of Flowers; The Elements; Making Fire; Every man; Cheesemaker; Bee Man; Two Gifts; Landslide; Leiwater; Switzerland; Another North; Portrait of a Marriage; Home; Dog Days; Drowning; Into The Valley; Slow dozing; Bluebeard's gift; To the Sisters; Appointment; The Owls; To My Father, Who Died; A Necessary Tearing; Hogsback; The Weakest Link; Saviour; Fated; The Manual of Common Sense: Chapter 249; Over the wall; The Anatomy of Poetry; Blood Delta; History; She said she'd had a normal childhood

Love ImaginedOn being a single mother living with two adolescent sons; Women swimming; Generation; Miracle; The Difficult Gift; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-920397-92-2

1-920397-90-6

OCLC:

830165964