In this Book
- Burnt Offering
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Modjaji Books
summary
Burnt Offering is Joan Metelerkamp's seventh colllection of poems. The title comes from a poem in a cycle that embodies the labours of the medieval alchemists - heating and burning, transformation of passionate intensity, the search for an enduring element. In the process malignant doubt is burnt off, and what takes its place is trust in the everyday: "take this day, here, take it all its clarity, all its gold" - Like all of Metelerkamp's work, these generous poems draw on and weave together, with her distinctive energy and passion, the details of family and rural life, dreams, landscapes and journeys.
Table of Contents
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- Points on Poems
- pp. 12-21
- Alchemical Incantations
- Burnt offering
- pp. 33-35
- Dissolving in its own water
- pp. 36-37
- Down to earth
- pp. 39-40
- Where are you
- p. 45
- Bury the dead
- pp. 46-47
- Sorting it out
- p. 48
- Marry Maree
- p. 49
- Come together
- p. 50
- Body of work
- pp. 53-54
- Came back wanting
- pp. 57-64
- Twee Rivieren
- pp. 65-69
- Crossing the Crocodile
- pp. 70-89
- Notes and Acknowledgements
- pp. 91-94
Additional Information
ISBN
9781920397159
Related ISBN(s)
9780980272949
MARC Record
OCLC
726828809
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No