Skin Rafts
eBook - ePub

Skin Rafts

  1. 110 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Skin Rafts

About this book

By highlighting and teasing out the mingled emotions of anxiety, disenchantment, hope and anger which characterise South Africans' current experienced reality, Sole's poetry questions and expands on our concerns about identity and belonging. In so doing, the poems in Skin Rafts contemplate the relationships that exist between us on a number of seemingly discrete, but actually intertwined, fronts - the personal relationship between lovers; the wider social and political relationships between human beings; as well as the problematic and contested human relationships that are brought to bear on land, landscape and the non-human. In this collection the reader is confronted with the circumstance that both body and society exist in a fragile dimension of uncertainty, where we all are 'bobbing / on our raft of skin'.

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Information

Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781928433392
eBook ISBN
9781991240132
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Prelude
  6. Just up the road
  7. Landscoping
  8. Two oceans: the foreboding
  9. Two oceans: the yearning
  10. Surfers
  11. Farm
  12. Our endless dying
  13. Whiteness for the prosecution
  14. The ‘white left’
  15. The empty space we call Mandela
  16. Comprador
  17. Body language
  18. Kind
  19. Facebook (with timeline)
  20. What needs to be said
  21. For love
  22. People in glass houses
  23. New lovers
  24. Lacking the horse
  25. Orature
  26. Five befuddled moons
  27. The beekeeper’s husband
  28. My country
  29. Woodpecker
  30. Birding
  31. Benign serpents
  32. Breathless creatures
  33. Wing. Water. Tree.
  34. One breath, away
  35. Concealed owls
  36. Background music
  37. The actor (A dream with too much light)
  38. Yours hopefully
  39. Thorns
  40. Imaging
  41. Aubade
  42. Postlude
  43. Acknowledgements