Three Reasons For A Mixed, Umrabulo, Round-The-Corner Poetry. (Appendix *).i. A poem is meant to stand upon its own Like a Grecian urn in some colonial museum, The object of a contemplation (Thou still unravish'd bride ...) that obscures: The mud of its production; The complicity in our gaze. ii. Between, let's say, May 1984 and May 1986 (Speaking from my own limited, personal experience, of course) There was a shift out there From lyric to epic. iii. Our contemporary, the great northern Ireland poet, Writes from within and for A culture that assumes Homer, Spencer, Yeats. I live in a country with eleven official languages, Mass illiteracy, and a shaky memory. Here it is safe to assume Nothing at all. Niks. (Jeremy Cronin, Inside and Out 92) * The three poems included in this "Appendix" by permission of the author, Jeremy Cronin Jeremy Cronin (b. 1949) is a South African politician, academic and noted poet. Early life Cronin was brought up in a middle-class white Roman Catholic family in Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. During adolescence he considered the idea of entering the priesthood. , are from his Inside and Out (Cape Town Cape Town or Capetown, city (1991 pop. 854,616), legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape, a port on the Atlantic Ocean. It was the capital of Cape Province before that province's subdivision in 1994. : David Philip Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea Philip, d. A.D. 34, tetrarch of Ituraea, son of Herod the Great. He was perhaps the ablest of the Herod dynasty. He is mentioned in the Gospel of St. Luke. Publishers, 1999), pp. 92, 120 and 14. Jeremy Cronin is a poet and a political activist. He was educated in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. and France, and is presently a member of parliament and the deputy general secretary of the South African Communist Party South African Communist Party (SACP) is a political party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa. The SACP is a partner of the Tripartite Alliance which consists of the African National Congress and the Congress of South . Among his poetic works are Inside, Even the Dead, and Inside and Out. |
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