The Canary's Songbook [electronic resource]
Karen Press2011
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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 how universal such themes are, placing Africa on its own terms
within a global culture whose attractions and corruptions touch all, and in
which individuals struggle to make whole lives from the fragments they inherit.
Main title:
The Canary's Songbook [electronic resource] / Karen Press
Author:
Karen Press, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Poetry, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (104 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781847778031
Language:
English
BRN:
435355
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |