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Author / Creator:	Galgut, Elisa, author.
Imprint:	Cape Town, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	African poetry (English) African poetry. African poetry. African poetry (English) South Africa -- Poetry. South Africa. Electronic books. Poetry. Poetry.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12016568

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ISBN:	1928215165 9781928215165 1928215028 9781928215028 1928215025
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	These deeply felt poems are at once plain-speaking and alive with complexity; Galgut's elegant response to both pain and loveliness is inspiring. Elisa Galgut teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. She has a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. Her poetry has appeared in local literary journals and anthologies. She lives in Cape Town.
Other form:	Print version: Galgut, Elisa. Attribute of Poetry. : Modjaji Books, ©2015 9781928215165

Table of Contents:

The last light of evening
The beauty of the night
Eurydice and the TRC
The violin teacher's house
Expressive perception
Evening run in Lewes
The significance of significant form
On holiday in Riebeek Kasteel
The tyranny of the past
The illusion of memory
In memoriam
In memoriam ii
In the oncology ward at the Jo'burg General
The sweetpeas
She dreams of rain
Still life
Moore's paradox
Heaps
Humphrey Bogart's cigarette
My muse
Not a love poem
The accuracy of letters
The art of memory
Helen Martins
At the world's end
Stargazing
After the rain
Treblinka
The attribute of poetry.