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Kin : Selected Poems, Song Lyrics and Prose Sketches / Barbara Grenfell Fairhead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairhead, Barbara Grenfell, 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Hands-On Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A generous portrait of an artist at the height of her powers of perception. In these poems, sketches and song lyrics, crafted over a lifetime, we come to share in the adventure of stepping out of what Grenfell Fairhead calls the "house of orthodoxy." What binds these pieces together is her exuberance, and the sense that we are always at the beginning. Again and again, one feels a sense of things just beyond the range of the senses, waiting for us to catch up with them. In each landscape she describes, one feels her sensibility in sympathy with it, finding a place in it. As she remembers and argues with herself, mourns and celebrates, we find ourselves accompanying her on this voyage of discovery with our own full attention"-- Front flap.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- THE BLESSING
- EAST GRIQUALAND
- PEPPER TREES AT DE AAR
- THE GREAT WORK
- HAIKU
- MATRIX
- THE RECKONING
- NAKED HANDS
- FATHER
- EPITAPH
- YOU FOUND ME
- SHE WALKED OUT THE BACK DOOR
- GRIEF
- I WANT YOU TO FEEL THE WIND
- THE CRAFTING
- DARE I COME INTO TOUCH
- A NEW VOICE
- NARROW DIRT ROAD
- THAT OTHER WILDERNESS
- LAGOON
- WEST COAST-DONKERGAT
- DONKERGAT
- LIGHT
- THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND
- THE STONES
- HERE IS WHERE
- REQUIEM FOR A BROKEN WORLD
- A BLUE CORNFLOWER
- ENTANGLEMENT
- COUNTING THE EMPTY CHAIRS
- YOUR EYES
- THE AFTERWORD
- PASCOE'S SONG
- REQUIEM
- LIMPET SHELLS-WEST COAST
- SLOWLY-SLOWLY
- DARK MERCY
- Two White Birds
- Wind Ripples in the Water
- THE ISLAND
- A DAY GONE
- WINTER
- WILD BIRD
- HERON
- KIRSTEN'S SONG
- FALSE BAY COASTAL ROAD
- TOTEM
- THE ROAD HEADS EAST
- MISCHKA
- YOUR FACE
- THE HEART OF THE HOUSE
- REQUIEM FOR A BELOVED
- FREYJA
- FRITH
- FOR THE DEAD ONES
- THE BONES
- COURTYARD
- A ROSE IS NOT A ROSE
- REFLECTIONS ON AN OLD TABLE
- PRUNES
- LATE SUMMER
- COVENANT
- HERE I AM
- I Know Now
- GREY
- ENDINGS
- TOKAI
- WEST COAST ROAD
- THE DUNES
- WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS
- CAPE FRIO SEALS
- THE BREEDING SEASON
- SKELETON COAST: THIS DESOLATION
- FOLLOWING THE RIVER-SKELETON COAST
- I Grieve these Desert Rivers
- ABSENCE
- KUNENE RIVER
- IMPRINT
- ALONE
- FOREST RITUAL
- THE LAST WOLF-THE LAST WORD
- ONE STEP AWAY FROM WILD
- ALASKA
- RAVEN
- No Stars! No Moon!
- Sap Rising in an Old Tree
- STRANGE MEETING
- HAIKU.
- INITIATION
- BELIEF
- SNOW
- THE CUTTING EDGE
- BIRTHRIGHT
- SUZIE-NOSIZWE - MPHEPHO
- THE ALOE RITUALS
- BONES AND SHADOWS
- DANCE
- HER LAST PASSAGE
- THE ANCESTORS
- STRANGE
- MEMORY
- THE COLOUR OF SHADOWS
- THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE
- LOBO
- WOLF MOUNTAIN
- HOWL
- THE HERESY
- LIVING MY DYING
- TESTAMENT
- LEAVING THE WORLD
- A RARE BLUE FLOWER
- THE RIVER BENEATH THE RIVER
- THE ART OF AUGURY
- RITE
- WHAT IS THE CALL?
- THE GEOMETRY OF FATE
- SACRAMENT
- AN INVISIBLE PATH
- AUGURY
- BLACK FIRE
- GOD'S EYE VIEW
- LIZARD BRAIN
- FIERCE
- THE FIERCE WILD ANARCHY OF DREAMS
- PORTRAIT
- LINYANTI
- BARS
- FIRE
- YOU'VE GOT TO STEP OUT THE BOAT
- THE DARK WIND
- Untitled
- ANCESTRY
- THE MERCY OF WILD THINGS
- THE ICONOCLAST
- A BLUE PIG FROM MEXICO
- RANCHO DE SAN JUAN-NEW MEXICO
- TATTOO JESUS
- JACKRABBIT-RANCHO DE SAN JUAN
- A HUNTED ELK
- NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LOS TOROS
- THE HOT SUMMER
- MRS FERNANDEZ
- DESERT MOON
- TRES PIEDRAS
- MILAGRO
- THE ARROYO
- DRIFTWOOD
- ON THE ROAD TO TAOS
- DESERT-NEW MEXICO
- RANCHO DE SAN JUAN
- DUENDE
- Through My Window
- A Still World of Mist and Rain
- After the Rain
- ONE DAY
- THE SILENCE OF SALT
- SOLITUDE
- THIS CHANGING FACE
- THE RIVER PEOPLE
- GOATS AND THORN TREES
- THE WAY SALT LONGS FOR THE SEA
- THE SONG OF THE RED EARTH
- SOUL
- NAKED
- THE CREATION
- ODE TO MYSTERY
- THE DAWNING OF THE DARK
- THE RAVEN'S CALL
- SANTA FE NEW MEXICO
- THE WEEPING
- THE SUDDEN COMING
- INHERITANCE
- SHALL I FOLLOW YOU?
- This Darkness Obscures All Vision
- THIS FLAME
- THIS DARK AND LOVELY WOUND
- WHAT IS OUR WOUNDING?
- THE UNVEILING
- DARK RADIANCE.
- GRAVID
- LOOKING BACK
- COMING HOME
- SONG FOR LYNDALL
- LET ME LIE DOWN AND DRINK THE WIND
- FISH I
- FISH II
- FISH III
- FISH IV
- FISH V
- EARLY MORNING
- TILL ALL YOUR WATERS GO OVER ME
- STONE COTTAGE: WEST COAST
- THIS SMALL ROOM
- WILD SALT BURNING
- PIAF
- TOUCH
- LOOK FOR ME
- I AND THOU
- I AM THOU
- Saint Francis Veterinary Hospital, Cape Town
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781991240194
- 1991240198
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