Skinned
Selected Poems
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نقد و بررسی
June 15, 2013
Here's a rare book: an anthology selecting from 12 volumes to cover the entire career of award-winning Afrikaans poet Krog, who is publishing in North America for the first time. It's rare, too, because Krog manages to write about politics, family, and poetry itself without sounding as if she were delivering a lecture. Fittingly, the opening poem relates poetry to the act of speaking and listening ("the poet writes poetry with her tongue/ yes, she breathes deeply with her ear"), reminding us not only of poetry's oral tradition but, more tellingly, of Krog's own world, where languages compete and where for many years, of course, some voices were silenced. Throughout, Krog comes across as passionate and engaged, whether she's writing about her beloved ("I peel your face/ I bite your tongue like a banana from your mouth") or her larger world: as she says in "Country of grief and grace," "between you and me/ how desperately/ how it aches/ how desperately it aches between you and me." VERDICT Don't read Krog simply for the novelty of dipping into Afrikaans poetry. This sharp, engaging, tightly crafted work shows what poetry can do.--Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
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