Book of Songs
Published on 30. October 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-86814-398-6 (ISBN)
Description
Written over a month of fasting and inspired by the poetry of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, these poems are all, ultimately, songs of love. When John Cleare, described as the outstanding British mountain photographer of the post-war era (""Penguin Encyclopaedia of Mountaineering""), generously agreed to contribute his photographs, these songs of love met their matching images of light and the book of songs finally became complete. It includes 40 captivating black and white photos by John Cleare.
Reviews / Votes
There are very few book-length sequences of poems and it excites me to encounter this form in the work of a well-known South African poet. Shabbir Banoobhai takes a position that requires daring combined with humility - there is no rhetoric, no propaganda, but also no slinking away, no hiding in the suburbs of language, no shrinking from an encounter with mystery. - Joan MetelerkampMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Johannesburg
South Africa
Illustrations
40 captivating black & white photos
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86814-398-6 (9781868143986)
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Persons
Shabbir Banoobhai: His publications include: echoes of my other self, shadows of a sun-darkened land, wisdom in a jug, inward moon outward sun, and lightmall. John Cleare specialises in mountain and landscape photography. His books include Mountains of the World, Tao Te Ching (with Ralph Alan Dale) and Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains (with Richard Sale).