Natal Command

Peter Sacks

ISBN 10: 0226733424 / ISBN 13: 9780226733425

Published by The University of Chicago Press, US, 1997

About this Item

Peter Sacks draws upon his life as an expatriate as well as upon his early years in South Africa, including his time spent in the military, to create a remarkably powerful book of poetry. At turns meditative and narrative, Sacks is unafraid to lay bare in vivid imagery his sense of both personal and historical losses, and his commitment to the works of mourning and of cultural repair. Even the love poems emerge from this book with the impress of both bittersweet aspiration and regret.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Natal Command
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, US
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226733424
• ISBN 13: 9780226733425
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Peter Sacks draws upon his life as an expatriate as well as upon his early years in South Africa, including his time spent in the military, to create a remarkably powerful book of poetry. At turns meditative and narrative, Sacks is unafraid to lay bare in vivid imagery his sense of both personal and historical losses, and his commitment to the works of mourning and of cultural repair. Even the love poems emerge from this book with the impress of both bittersweet aspiration and regret.

About the Author

Peter Sacks is the author of two previous collections of poems, In These Mountains and Promised Lands, and of the acclaimed critical work The English Elegy. He is professor of English at Harvard University.