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Title: In a Language That You Know
Condition: New
Author: Len Verwey
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0803290985
EAN: 9780803290983
ISBN: 9780803290983
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 01/10/2017
Description: South Africa is a complicated, contradictory, and haunted place. Len Verwey captures the trajectory of life in such a place, dealing with childhood, war, marriage, divorce, and death. He explores the challenges posed by place and history, shared identities, deep embeddedness in the continent, and the legacies of violence and exclusion, as well as beauty. 

Verwey offers poems that speak of uncertainty, ask questions, and challenge simplistic and scapegoating narratives that become so tempting when living in a society undergoing intense social and economic pressure. Dealing less with factual or political explanations of war and more with the compulsion of war, in particular, “maleness” and violence, Verwey pulls the reader into another world, opening eyes to the “crisis of men,” the violence against women, children, and the foreign in a country where conflicts are again escalating. In a Language That You Know strives to understand the complexity of one of the most unequal, violent, yet most vibrant societies in the world.


Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Book Series: African Poetry Book
Release Year: 2017

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