A Book of Rooms

Kobus Moolman

Description

Kobus Moolman has published six previous collections of poetry, and several plays. He has been awarded the Ingrid Jonker prize, the PANSA award, the South African Literary Award, the DALRO poetry prize and the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry award. He teaches creative writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Informations

• Publié par: Deep South
• Date de parution: 29 décembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781928476207
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

2014© Kobus Moolman
All rights reserved
ISBN: 978-0-9870282-4-2
ebook ISBN: 978-1-928476-20-7
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Deep South acknowledges the financial assistance of
the National Arts Council for the production of this book

Production of this book was made possible in part by a research grant from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, under the auspices of the National Research Foundation
Text design and layout: Liz Gowans
Cover painting: Andries Gouws: ‘Grahamstown residence room with red curtains’. Oil on canvas.
For Julia
soli deo gloria
In memory of my father Jacobus Philippus Moolman

Even if I have the help only of yellowing snapshots, a handful of eyewitness accounts and a few paltry documents to prop up my implausible memories, I have no alternative but to conjure up what for too many years I called the irrevocable: the things that were, the things that stopped, the things that were closed off – things that surely were and today are no longer, but things that also were so that I may still be.
– Georges Perec
Contents
1. Who
The Room of Maybe
The Room of Green
The Room of Growing
The Room of Family Holidays
The Room of Rural Teaching
The Room of What He Excels At
2. What
The Room of Impressions and First Appearances
The Room of Independence
The Room of Wordlessness
The Room of the First Time
The Room of White
The Room of Promises
The Room of the Dream
The Room of More
The Room of Free-Falling, Forever, Not Downhill
The Room of Self-Pity
3. Why
The Room of This is Not It, No, This is Not It at All