Pillage
Published on 4. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-7981-8318-5 (ISBN)
Description
This new collection, Pillage, is published eight years since Synapse (Mede-wete), which received the Hertzog Prize for Poetry in 2017. In Pillage Krog develops her familiar themes of family, body and land but this time in the harsh light of pillaging, whether being done by nature, humans, or old age.
The poems reveal a painful fragility, an exasperation and even at times a blissful celebration trying to determine different ways of dealing with erosions, here and now. Then there is finding comfort, being nourished by remarkable moments of beauty: the delight of an egret in a vlei, watching over a young child who is discovering the world around him, and remembering the raptures of love. Pillage is translated by award winning poet and translator, Karen Press.
The poems reveal a painful fragility, an exasperation and even at times a blissful celebration trying to determine different ways of dealing with erosions, here and now. Then there is finding comfort, being nourished by remarkable moments of beauty: the delight of an egret in a vlei, watching over a young child who is discovering the world around him, and remembering the raptures of love. Pillage is translated by award winning poet and translator, Karen Press.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cape Town
South Africa
Dimensions
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7981-8318-5 (9780798183185)
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Krog is one of SA's foremost poets. She received the Hertzog Prize for Lady Anne (1989) and Mede-wete (2017). Country of My Skull, her account of the TRC, received several awards, e.g. the Hiroshima Foundation's award for Peace and Culture. She has been Extraordinary Professor of Literature and Philosophy at UWC since 2004.