Hierdie mens

A slim, spare collection of small studies and personal notes, playful in a way that only seems offhand. Again and again the human being, bound to language, stands against a wordless natural order that appears more truthful than the world people have made for themselves and their possessions. The poet turns to the moon, the sea, a rock, a donkey, an aphid, a pig and a cat, less to examine them than to pay them quiet regard and find in each something to say about human folly. Death is never far away, and the poems give shape to accepting it, to tidying up and letting go, in a calmer, plainer voice of simplicity and stillness, wary of technical progress, of human mastery over nature and of the craving for certainty.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

49 pages in the original

First published

2013 by Human & Rousseau

ISBN

9780798163736 (original)