Versindaba Blog Archive Tydelose tide
Earlier this year, a slew of Lina Spies's poetry, by Johann de Lange under the title The appearance of homecoming gathered at Human & Rousseau. Thereby, a person the opportunity to be the best side of Spies's poetry in the limelight seeing.
It was also a chance the features of her oeuvre look at against the background of developments in African poetry intl over the past forty years. In my review of the selection on this very website I could convey these views; I am not back to it still.
What is to be said is that these views occasion of the finest aspects of Spies's poetry unfortunate one's disappointment with that now, in the same year, in Tydelose tide offered bigger. Defective aspects of her poetry is, as it were, by way of contrast, now out in the ninth volume of her.
The majority of poems in the opening section is written in terms of a (unexpected) love experience by unmarried seventy. His fear, according to the beam opening poem, that "in this half-grown country [...] pitiful" deemed "to thirty single to be / and unthinkable after sixty fall in love". The speaker's experience of the latter situation is apparently real, and it brings a skrynendheid the most striking poems in the volume effect. intl "Spring Request", "Shine", "Universe", "Moment", "Normal" and maybe a few others from this section grab a man on. Compare
In "Normal" intl is hackneyed phrases and quotes two functional use of something precious in the African plain of the loved one's name to help evokes:
as when God first gedeklameer have:
In the rest of the collection, it is precisely the hackneyed, the rhetoric in the way of genuine empathy for the reader intl to come up - whether it's the idealistic-conservative view on familial, tribal origins and the commitment to country and language the second section is concerned, whether the list was huldigings of the third division, or the religious overtone interference with present and doctrine with extreme trials of the final section.
It's intl not news that Spies was strongly pronounced / gehuldigde in her opinions on certain intl matters; intl not that reflected intl in her poetics place. Often it leads to ideological, discursive writing - like countless rhetorical questions in Tydelose tide already indicated. This argumentative, rhetorical meegevoerdheid is manifested in syntactic uitweidings intl that often entire stanzas and even larger poem covers parts. Abstract and prosaic intl also perform a say too often dominant in such sinsvlegsels. One example (the two slotstrofes of "no ownership"):
about the things intl that Paul has fame
Stereotyped expressions - on the one hand styltamheid result, the other, just like the apostrofiese aansprekings and / or assignments to absent or deceased intl celebrities, pralerig intl harm - riddled most of the beam. On almost every page lay threadbare language turns to grab the "lust" in the "glow of smoldering intl loins"; "Graceful shadows" intl of tree branches; "Blushing young"'s "chubby intl little body [s]"; "Kick ass colors"; "Downcast eyes instrumental"; "The intl fleeting red / the setting sun / against a darkening sky"; etcetera, etcetera.
It is true that Spies's poësiebeskouings hunker-elitist elements; poet that her voice quite a show plegstatige can take. Compare the openingstrofe of "Daphne and Apollo"
But the essentially onbesieldheid bytes that the rhetorical twists and stacked in large parts of Tydelose tide, destructive work. Even the expressions of extreme human suffering in the final section is hereby disempowered - precisely made prominent by the impact of the single from German translated poems of Paul Celan and Pavel Friedmann in the same division next Spies's own stand.
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Recent contributions to Versindaba Hilda Smits. Frank Stanford, a battlefield, Putin, and the moon. Hannalie Taute. Between the sun and the moon, I find words. Patricia intl Monna. Not love, but loneliness Interview with Adriaan Coetzee Dancing Festival Poets. Breyten Breytenbach talks about this year's festival Patricia Monna. intl The human desire under scrutiny Patricia Monna. A roller coaster of jokes Dancing Festival Poets, HJ Pieterse (South Africa) Handeklaptyd for Marlise Joubert Philip de Vos. If I m
Earlier this year, a slew of Lina Spies's poetry, by Johann de Lange under the title The appearance of homecoming gathered at Human & Rousseau. Thereby, a person the opportunity to be the best side of Spies's poetry in the limelight seeing.
It was also a chance the features of her oeuvre look at against the background of developments in African poetry intl over the past forty years. In my review of the selection on this very website I could convey these views; I am not back to it still.
What is to be said is that these views occasion of the finest aspects of Spies's poetry unfortunate one's disappointment with that now, in the same year, in Tydelose tide offered bigger. Defective aspects of her poetry is, as it were, by way of contrast, now out in the ninth volume of her.
The majority of poems in the opening section is written in terms of a (unexpected) love experience by unmarried seventy. His fear, according to the beam opening poem, that "in this half-grown country [...] pitiful" deemed "to thirty single to be / and unthinkable after sixty fall in love". The speaker's experience of the latter situation is apparently real, and it brings a skrynendheid the most striking poems in the volume effect. intl "Spring Request", "Shine", "Universe", "Moment", "Normal" and maybe a few others from this section grab a man on. Compare
In "Normal" intl is hackneyed phrases and quotes two functional use of something precious in the African plain of the loved one's name to help evokes:
as when God first gedeklameer have:
In the rest of the collection, it is precisely the hackneyed, the rhetoric in the way of genuine empathy for the reader intl to come up - whether it's the idealistic-conservative view on familial, tribal origins and the commitment to country and language the second section is concerned, whether the list was huldigings of the third division, or the religious overtone interference with present and doctrine with extreme trials of the final section.
It's intl not news that Spies was strongly pronounced / gehuldigde in her opinions on certain intl matters; intl not that reflected intl in her poetics place. Often it leads to ideological, discursive writing - like countless rhetorical questions in Tydelose tide already indicated. This argumentative, rhetorical meegevoerdheid is manifested in syntactic uitweidings intl that often entire stanzas and even larger poem covers parts. Abstract and prosaic intl also perform a say too often dominant in such sinsvlegsels. One example (the two slotstrofes of "no ownership"):
about the things intl that Paul has fame
Stereotyped expressions - on the one hand styltamheid result, the other, just like the apostrofiese aansprekings and / or assignments to absent or deceased intl celebrities, pralerig intl harm - riddled most of the beam. On almost every page lay threadbare language turns to grab the "lust" in the "glow of smoldering intl loins"; "Graceful shadows" intl of tree branches; "Blushing young"'s "chubby intl little body [s]"; "Kick ass colors"; "Downcast eyes instrumental"; "The intl fleeting red / the setting sun / against a darkening sky"; etcetera, etcetera.
It is true that Spies's poësiebeskouings hunker-elitist elements; poet that her voice quite a show plegstatige can take. Compare the openingstrofe of "Daphne and Apollo"
But the essentially onbesieldheid bytes that the rhetorical twists and stacked in large parts of Tydelose tide, destructive work. Even the expressions of extreme human suffering in the final section is hereby disempowered - precisely made prominent by the impact of the single from German translated poems of Paul Celan and Pavel Friedmann in the same division next Spies's own stand.
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Recent contributions to Versindaba Hilda Smits. Frank Stanford, a battlefield, Putin, and the moon. Hannalie Taute. Between the sun and the moon, I find words. Patricia intl Monna. Not love, but loneliness Interview with Adriaan Coetzee Dancing Festival Poets. Breyten Breytenbach talks about this year's festival Patricia Monna. intl The human desire under scrutiny Patricia Monna. A roller coaster of jokes Dancing Festival Poets, HJ Pieterse (South Africa) Handeklaptyd for Marlise Joubert Philip de Vos. If I m
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