{"product_id":"the-history-of-intimacy-9780810143609","title":"The History of Intimacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a tender, tangled account of the heady days in South Africa following Nelson Mandela's release from prison. This award-winning poetry collection portrays the innovative forms of music, kinship, and even self in \"\"the new, intricate country \/ we understood was impossible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaderoon’s poetry . . . uses a gentle eye to consider all that is intimate between us, and in doing so, renders these quiet and still moments as sacred. In \u003ci\u003eThe History of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, she has rendered our most painful histories through an unobtrusive lens. She has written them with care, and left space and silence around them, so they (and we) may have room to breathe. In the act of listening, we render them sacred, and might begin to heal.\" —Toni Giselle Stuart, \u003ci\u003eThe Johannesburg Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\". . . Baderoon’s poetry does not shy away from attempting to forge an understanding, on a broader political scale and in the intimacy of our souls.\" —Karina Magdalena Szczurek, \u003ci\u003eLitNet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"South African poet Gabeba Baderoon’s fourth collection of verse impresses with its concision of language and clarity of ideas. With subjects ranging from the hidden tableaus of her personal history to the meaning and value of poetry, Baderoon’s verses invite the reader to join her on an exploration of history, culture, and the universal qualities of the subjective experience.\" —\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoetry for Beginners\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tell Me What You See\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Prospect of Beauty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Closer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Surface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Focal Length\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Axis and Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Rain fall on the abstract world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Port Jackson, Cape Town\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Port Cities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The River Cities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Everything We've Said\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Diving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Concentration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Promised land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Koggelbaai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Blue of the Night before We Left\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ghost Technologies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Song of the Husband 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Flats\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Black Butterflies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Green pincushion proteas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Effective Immediately\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Edges of Things\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hangklip*\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e No Name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Not You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I saw you walk toward something\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The History of Intimacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Answering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Law of the Mother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cardinal Points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038272094551,"sku":"9780810143609","price":14.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810143609.jpg?v=1750939729","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-history-of-intimacy-9780810143609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}