Versindaba Blog Archive Review: Atlas at the River Password (Pirow Bekker)
"It is time to be old," said Ralph Waldo Emerson in his poem 'Terminus', and this has inevitable consequences for those of seventy, and if you are strong, eighty, those "behind standing (have) / then the sheets handed out is ":
The bottom line in Wilma Stockenström's poem "Listen here," her latest collection This man states also prompt: s1homes "It's dying season and swallows s1homes sitting on leaving the wires." But thank God not in the African poetry-this s1homes country is the poets no means "finished poem" (as in Katalekte Breytenbach says), but there do the African poets good business with the dead and the living! In fact, compared to the lush production of new work by older poets is rather breeding season! A person would with deliberate respect the last year or three could be called The Return of the Ancients of Days - besides Stockenström delivers Petra Müller, Adam Small, Breyten Breytench Hennie Pires, Dolf van Niekerk, TT Cloete, Lina Spies and MM Walters significant additions to their oeuvre, in some cases even highlights. No rest-my-soul sterfbedwoorde, rather "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" as Walt Whitman in a different context noem.Ná TT Cloete for JC Kannemeyer so thoroughly washing the head because he mischievously s1homes referred to elderly artists [read 'Reply to Kannemeyer' in Journal of Literature 41 (2) (http://www.ajol.info/index.php/tvl/article/view/29681)], no one ever dared age in game to bring in the appraisal and valuation s1homes of poetry. That's certainly true of Pirow Bekker.
For more than forty years a mighty good body of work to build, provides a remarkable achievement. Pirow Bekker's eighth volume of poetry, with the beautiful title: Atlas vs. the forgotten s1homes river (also the most beautiful cover), is an affirmation of the poet's constant good contribution to African literature. Indeed, with this new collection again again a discovery to see how comfortable s1homes a true craftsman deftly with the literatures deal. With a thesis on the title in the African poetry, one can expect certain Bekker's beam title will be telling.
From Greek mythology we know the figure Atlas, the Titanium of navigation and astronomy, and a symbol of endurance. Zeus's punishment Atlas was not that he was the world on his shoulders to bear (as the poet chooses to use it - see the conclusion of the opening poem 'Future Past), but Uranus, with his feet firmly planted on the earth, to stop there is not a primordial embrace between the two planets is not. Accordingly, he was Atlas Telamon was known, and he became the symbolic embodiment of the celestial axis around s1homes which the sky and the stars rotate. This mythological breeding ground in which the beam is prayer, offering naturally rich mining opportunities, which Bekker explored by a wider metaphorical bow making. s1homes Flowing from this is the meaning s1homes of 'Atlas' as a collection of geographic maps of course in the beam for set and wider metaphorized (Adam's apple). But Atlas is also the name of a trippelstersisteem in the open cluster of Pleiades, known 27 Tauri. In this sense, s1homes the beam composition of range ("woordskroot") offered.
In addition, the atlas designation of the upper cervical spine the head (like a soil) can turn. This is a key code in the volume (for example, explores in Kopatlas' and'' Not the dog).
The beautiful word "forgotten river" in the anthology title hitting the lete of course, one of the five rivers of Hades, the underworld of forgetfulness, also known as Potamos Ameles "," The River of unmindfulness ". All who drink of him, his mouth will stink of corruption, and so they will dusdoende of their earthly existence forgotten.
But want to forget the poetic titanium - he set himself against the bent I of age on, it is calculated encounter s1homes makes poetry as memory cards at the Great Forget. The entry against forgetting is often an attempt to connect what is wrong or missed, to fix. In the stirring poem "Kopatlas' revisited father the path of fatherhood as he walked, and he tries the paternal bloodline in the inability to figure s1homes out. Ironically, the attempt to forget s1homes exactly a recall, and offsetting a consolidation, also know as part of the dark nature in the generasielyn reproduce, "even a flat placebo / spread the atlas to forget."
As in his previous two beams are in this text a preoccupation s1homes with transitions, finished and unfinished, s1homes and it is especially embodied in the compelling desire to create a bridge to the forgotten river. The bridge is the "narrow gate of wonder" (as it pretty Opperman nominated), the poetic I's bedagte / suspect plan to thwart death. Di
"It is time to be old," said Ralph Waldo Emerson in his poem 'Terminus', and this has inevitable consequences for those of seventy, and if you are strong, eighty, those "behind standing (have) / then the sheets handed out is ":
The bottom line in Wilma Stockenström's poem "Listen here," her latest collection This man states also prompt: s1homes "It's dying season and swallows s1homes sitting on leaving the wires." But thank God not in the African poetry-this s1homes country is the poets no means "finished poem" (as in Katalekte Breytenbach says), but there do the African poets good business with the dead and the living! In fact, compared to the lush production of new work by older poets is rather breeding season! A person would with deliberate respect the last year or three could be called The Return of the Ancients of Days - besides Stockenström delivers Petra Müller, Adam Small, Breyten Breytench Hennie Pires, Dolf van Niekerk, TT Cloete, Lina Spies and MM Walters significant additions to their oeuvre, in some cases even highlights. No rest-my-soul sterfbedwoorde, rather "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" as Walt Whitman in a different context noem.Ná TT Cloete for JC Kannemeyer so thoroughly washing the head because he mischievously s1homes referred to elderly artists [read 'Reply to Kannemeyer' in Journal of Literature 41 (2) (http://www.ajol.info/index.php/tvl/article/view/29681)], no one ever dared age in game to bring in the appraisal and valuation s1homes of poetry. That's certainly true of Pirow Bekker.
For more than forty years a mighty good body of work to build, provides a remarkable achievement. Pirow Bekker's eighth volume of poetry, with the beautiful title: Atlas vs. the forgotten s1homes river (also the most beautiful cover), is an affirmation of the poet's constant good contribution to African literature. Indeed, with this new collection again again a discovery to see how comfortable s1homes a true craftsman deftly with the literatures deal. With a thesis on the title in the African poetry, one can expect certain Bekker's beam title will be telling.
From Greek mythology we know the figure Atlas, the Titanium of navigation and astronomy, and a symbol of endurance. Zeus's punishment Atlas was not that he was the world on his shoulders to bear (as the poet chooses to use it - see the conclusion of the opening poem 'Future Past), but Uranus, with his feet firmly planted on the earth, to stop there is not a primordial embrace between the two planets is not. Accordingly, he was Atlas Telamon was known, and he became the symbolic embodiment of the celestial axis around s1homes which the sky and the stars rotate. This mythological breeding ground in which the beam is prayer, offering naturally rich mining opportunities, which Bekker explored by a wider metaphorical bow making. s1homes Flowing from this is the meaning s1homes of 'Atlas' as a collection of geographic maps of course in the beam for set and wider metaphorized (Adam's apple). But Atlas is also the name of a trippelstersisteem in the open cluster of Pleiades, known 27 Tauri. In this sense, s1homes the beam composition of range ("woordskroot") offered.
In addition, the atlas designation of the upper cervical spine the head (like a soil) can turn. This is a key code in the volume (for example, explores in Kopatlas' and'' Not the dog).
The beautiful word "forgotten river" in the anthology title hitting the lete of course, one of the five rivers of Hades, the underworld of forgetfulness, also known as Potamos Ameles "," The River of unmindfulness ". All who drink of him, his mouth will stink of corruption, and so they will dusdoende of their earthly existence forgotten.
But want to forget the poetic titanium - he set himself against the bent I of age on, it is calculated encounter s1homes makes poetry as memory cards at the Great Forget. The entry against forgetting is often an attempt to connect what is wrong or missed, to fix. In the stirring poem "Kopatlas' revisited father the path of fatherhood as he walked, and he tries the paternal bloodline in the inability to figure s1homes out. Ironically, the attempt to forget s1homes exactly a recall, and offsetting a consolidation, also know as part of the dark nature in the generasielyn reproduce, "even a flat placebo / spread the atlas to forget."
As in his previous two beams are in this text a preoccupation s1homes with transitions, finished and unfinished, s1homes and it is especially embodied in the compelling desire to create a bridge to the forgotten river. The bridge is the "narrow gate of wonder" (as it pretty Opperman nominated), the poetic I's bedagte / suspect plan to thwart death. Di
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