My Account Log in

1 option

Kin : Selected Poems, Song Lyrics and Prose Sketches / Barbara Grenfell Fairhead.

EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online

View online
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

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

Find

Home Release notes

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Find catalog Using Articles+ Using your account