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Overview
Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring a long epic poem based on the life of Lady Anne Barnard from Scotland, who accompanied her husband to Cape Town and lived in the castle there from 1797 until 1802. This volume was written during the height of apartheid and the poet chose Lady Anne as representative of the colonial vision. Part Three contains extracts from several speakers who lived in the land before the likes of lady Anne arrived. Krog includes here interviews with inhabitants of the stone desert, three re-workings of Bushmen or Xam narratives, as well as a translation of an oral Xhosa praise poem. Part Four represents the political turmoil of South Africa and the divisions within Africa. The poems come from volumes that explored how blacks and whites identifying with the oppressed were removed from official history. The present volume as a whole explores the necessity of "a change of tongue" in order to be.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609804633 |
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| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press |
| Publication date: | 05/07/2013 |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d) |
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Table of Contents
Publisher's Note 11
Author's Note 14
A Extenuating Circumstances
poet becoming 19
marital song 20
sonnet of the hot flushes 22
writing ode 23
the men you were 32
my words of love 33
the day surrenders to its sadness 34
illness 35
morning tea 36
how do you say this 37
arrivals 39
ma will be late 41
transparency of the sole 42
for my daughter 44
for my son 45
extenuating circumstances 46
man and wife 47
as the tale was told 49
avowal 51
paternoster 52
B The Lady as Allegory
Lady Anne Barnard at the Castle of Good Hope 55
"I think I am the first woman"- Lady Anne on Table Mountain 56
from the Castle at Cape of Good Hope 58
Lady Anne Barnard looks out on Table Bay 59
Lady Anne looks out again from the Castle of Good Hope 61
Lady Anne Barnard: remembered for her parties in my history book 62
Lady Anne paints a watercolour of the Mission at Genadendal 64
Lady Anne's inland diary 67
Lady Anne leaves the Cape 66
Lady Anne as guide because a hero needs a bard 69
Lady Anne to Andrew Barnard in the Cape 70
Andrew Barnard at the Cape to Lady Anne in London 71
Lady Anne in Wimpole 72
Lady Anne got back 73
neither family nor friends says Lady Anne 74
ending I 75
C Colour Never Comes Alone
nine narratives from the stone-desert in 1999:
1 Grief Fanner of Eksteenfontein 79
2 Maria Johanna Domroch of Kubus 79
3 old nomadic movement patterns 80
4 goatfarmer oom Jakobus de Wet speaks poetry 80
5 the narrative of stone 82
6 on the banks of the Gariep river 82
7 narrative of a diamond sorter 83
8 narrative of another diamond sorter 84
9 the goats 64
/xam narratives (1873-1879):
the wind 84
what the stars say 88
eaten by a lion 89
the young man and the lion 90
translations of praise poems from African languages:
praise poem for Pheladi (P Mamogoho) 93
until you give me a drink of water (C T Msimang) 96
living the moons of the Pedi calendar 99
praise poem for Desmond and Leah Tutu on his eightieth birthday 101
Table Mountain rondeau in four parts 104
D VernacularWhite
land 111
Bessie 112
every day I treat you as if you were mine 114
scar- 116
-tissue 117
lament 118
letter-poem lullaby for Ntombizana Atoo 121
toilet poem 125
nightmare of A Samuel born Krog 126
a one dimensional song for the northern Freestate, more specifically Middenspruit* 127
in transit-a cycle of the early nineties:
(a) first Christmas weekend under the state of emergency 1988 129
(b) refused march at Kroonstad Monday 23 October 1989 130
(c) Brentpark march 1990 131
(d) 1992 132
(e) 1994 (before the election) 133
(f) 1995 (after the election) 133
litany 135
some seasonal observations of Table Mountain 136
country of grief and grace:
(a) between you and me 141
(b) in the beginning is seeing 141
(c) speechless I stand 142
(d) because of you 142
(e) this body bereft 143
(f) what does one do with the old 143
(g) but if the old is not guilty 144
becomings:
1 (Citadel) 145
2 (Beginning: Gorée) 146
3 (Griot Songs) 146
4 (Griot's Story Told on the Niger) 147
5 (River: N'ger-n-gereo) 150
7 (Beverage) 151
8 (Boat) 152
9 (Free From the Tyranny of One) 152
10 (Poet Becoming) 153
E Body Bereft
it is true 157
since 158
five menopausal sonnets: like death in my arms 160
bronze bull of Lavigny 161
short visit 162
hormone sonnet 163
God, Death, Love 164
leave me a lonely began 165
when tight is loose 167
softsift of the hourglass 169
some seasonal observations of Table Mountain 170
on my behalf 174