A Corpse is Also A Garden - Poems

a corpse is also a garden
by Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal

my ancestors surround me
in each breath I take
in the wild grass the summers
and the aurora lights
in the heavens of my brain

Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal is one of the leading young
Afrikaans poets of his generation. In this, a self-translated
selection of poems from his first two collections, readers
in English get to experience Odendaal's stunningly
confident and self-deconstructing work for the first time.
Odendaal's understated, precise style exhibits a maturity
beyond his years - whether he is reckoning with the hideous
deeds of his ancestors, the tribulations of young love, or the
various everyday beauties and horrors of modern South Africa.
These are poems that affirm our deepest and most profound
connections, both with each other and our environments - the
places that birth us, and the earth to which we all return.

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