Haiku from the tip of Africa -- Anthea Pretorius

Publisher: CTP Printers

Date Published: 2019

Condition: Good. Clean copy, binding tight.

Dimensions: 14cm x 12.5cm (small Book)

The conventions inherent in the ancient Japanese art of writing haiku, are embedded in its seventeen syllables spread over three lines. They display a poets imaginative wit and dexterity. Haiku capture what Gerard Manley Hopkins calls the inscape, or essence of a moment in nature.
These African haiku illustrate the power of poetry to appeal to the sensory and the cerebral. African philosophical traditions accept that the experience of wonder, reflected here, is the originating source of philosophy. In this new collection of haiku, Botswanan-born Anthea Pretorius captures a variety of precious, but provocatively sombre insights into lived life at the tip of Africa. This collaboration of Japanese word art and African wisdom will keep you spellbound.

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