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Canarys Songbook
Karen Press
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Description for Canarys Songbook
Paperback. In her third collection, one of South Africa's finest poets explores public and personal histories, confronting her nation's continuing, painful dialogue with its own past in poems of poignancy and thoughtfulness. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 145 x 9. Weight in Grams: 152.
In The Canary's Songbook Karen Press explores the inescapable shaping power of personal and public histories in individual lives and political processes. The theme has deep roots in Press's native South Africa. The desire to find ancestors who can be invoked as sources of wisdom, or validations of unwisdom, is a central preoccupation of the poems, given force by Press's understanding of South Africa's continuing, painful dialogue with its own past. The Canary's Songbook affirms the universality of such themes, placing Africa on its own terms within a global culture whose attractions and corruptions touch all, and in which individuals ... Read more
In The Canary's Songbook Karen Press explores the inescapable shaping power of personal and public histories in individual lives and political processes. The theme has deep roots in Press's native South Africa. The desire to find ancestors who can be invoked as sources of wisdom, or validations of unwisdom, is a central preoccupation of the poems, given force by Press's understanding of South Africa's continuing, painful dialogue with its own past. The Canary's Songbook affirms the universality of such themes, placing Africa on its own terms within a global culture whose attractions and corruptions touch all, and in which individuals ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857547634
SKU
V9781857547634
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Ref
99-26
About Karen Press
Born in Cape Town, KAREN PRESS has worked as a teacher of mathematics and English, and with a range of independent projects developing models of progressive education. She has published seven collections of poetry and has written textbooks and other education materials in the fields of mathematics, science, economics and English, as well as children?s stories, a film script and ... Read more
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