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9781990922664

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Du Toit draws on his childhood years in Botswana (the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as it was in those days) to examine questions of language identity and entitlement. He recalls confiding the secret of a magic trick to an itinerant Tswana man who in exchange taught him how to say a few words of the / Xam language; this proximity of language to the magical fashioning of reality still haunts him and has led to poems questioning our sense of belonging to social structures, sexual groupings and even to humanity itself.

Paradoxically, a diverse ethnic background (with Dutch, French, German and Scottish forebears) works against Du Toit’s sense of being welcomed into any single national group. Two directions of trans-national entitlement remain open – movement into an inner landscape of spiritual and artistic values, and an allegiance to the planet as an ecologically neutral, valued and threatened space of dwelling. Both of these manifestations of “home” feature prominently in Du Toit’s work. A visionary linguistics binds these worlds together – foregrounding of the inner life as a source of values and home encourages a Kantian vision of a natural world created by the necessary structures of human consciousness, language being the force and locus of this creation. Du Toit’s longed-for release from paid employment in 2011 allowed him to spend his mornings in Edinburgh University’s Main Library; there, over the next ten years, basing himself on the Third Floor of the library (where the University’s literature collections are housed), he composed a large body of poems, mainly free-verse sonnets, from which the poems of “Studies in Khoisan Verbs” are drawn.

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Publié par

Botsotso Publishing

Date de parution

08 mars 2024

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781990922664

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Studies in Khoisan Verbs

and Oer Poems

Basî du Toî

First published in 2024 byBotsotso 59 Natal St Bellevue East Johannesburg 2198botsotsopublishing@gmail.comwww.botsotso.org.za

e-ISBN:978-1-990922-66-4

Acknowledgements:

Versions of some of these poems have appeared in the following publications: Anima, Antiphon, Carapace, Dawntreader, Envoi, Interpreter’s House, Lighthouse, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Raum, Southlight, Stanzas

Cover image: The Digital Bleek and Lloyd archive managed by the University of Cape Town

Cover, layout and design: Advance Graphics

for Eve

der Herr brac das Brot, das Brot brac den Herrn.

e ord broke e Bread, e Bread broke e ord.

Paul Celan, Fadensonnen

CONTENTS

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