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Slowly, as If
Author(s): Karen Press (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 28 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 156 pages
- ISBN-10: 184777136X
- ISBN-13: 9781847771360
Book Description
In "SLOWLY, AS IF", Karen Press looks clear-eyed at what it means to live in a complex society, a fragile world. She celebrates the connectedness that sustains us - in dance, in love, with the natural world, in cities where 'strangers seem happy / to let you be' - and sees it betrayed by our unreflecting complicity in poverty and violence. The death of a child who 'barely scratched the air of the country' resonates in her tender, devastating account: 'When a child dies, who is responsible?' "SLOWLY, AS IF" asks hard questions with grace and wit, balancing the particular and the universal. 'Being told / you're made of stardust / is not helpful / as you sit holding a parking ticket', but it is, none the less, a truth.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"One of our finest poets." --South African Sunday Independent
About the Author
Karen Press lives in Cape Town. She has published eight poetry collections as well as mathematics textbooks and children s books. Her poetry has appeared in journals in South Africa, Britain, the United States, Australia and Canada, and in translation in French, Italian, Turkish and Tamil. She co-founded the publishing collective Buchu Books and currently works as a freelance editor and writer.
