Across the Light
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The book presents a variety of poems from under nine headings:
Those headed To Catch a Poem speak of the mystery of the art itself, of the fugitive impulse from the Muse and the delicate art of its capture by the poet.
The nine poems headed The Earth Will Not Forget speak with compassion and grief of persons caught up in recent conflict and struggle for justice in South Africa. They relate both to that particular arena of human suffering and to a broader landscape of the human condition.
The longer poems headed Arising from Art present reflections in the poet’s mind from pictures or poems by others, while the dramatic monologues of Hic Loquitur. . . seek to explore the minds of others through imagining their individual voices. And in Legend and Myth storytellers from African mythologies speak in counterpoint with voices from Chinese, Shakespearian and 19th century English poetry.
Four evocative poems in the poet’s own voice come to us From Tuscany, and her own voice again speaks, in the main from the dark end of the spectrum of experience, in the eighteen powerful poems defining That which we are. In Something Else she takes us into a yet darker realm she well knows behind the natural world. Shadow and Shade complete the collection in twelve strong portraits of the world as this fearless poet sees it.