Kobus Moolman
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A Book of Rooms
R120.00Kobus Moolman
A Book of Rooms deepens Kobus Moolman’s explorations in Light and After and Left Over, retaining the same Beckett-like sparseness and doggedness of those books, but in the form of a realist-biographical narrative. Organised in physically dense scenes labelled ‘rooms’, it inhabits the childhood and young adulthood of a man with a serious physical disability growing up in a grim family environment on the white side of apartheid in its final years. The reader is drawn immediately into the narrator’s meetings with pain and failure, and beneath these, his will to live, his sharp flashes of humour, and his need to know the truth.
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Working through a Moolman volume is both a rewarding and exhausting experience … However in a country where poems are too often simply sound-bytes for fleeting perceptions and states of mind, […] Moolman moves into a different space entirely, and has taken a much more difficult and honest path. The reader will emerge from this poetry chastened but delighted. They are works of acumen, depth and extraordinary pressure.
– Kelwyn Sole, New Coin
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Light and After
R120.00Kobus Moolman
Deeper and richer than before, Kobus Moolman’s voice in the poem cycle Light and After gathers strength to climax in the third section Anatomy. Sometimes terse and astringent, sometimes luxurious, the poems are always specific, rooted in the cycles of earth and body. This is a beautiful work, distinctively South African in its imagery and diction.
– Joan Metelerkamp
The reader is constantly located in the artist’s body negotiating between the physical space of bricks and mortar, and the inner, imagined reality which is a shifting, unreliable space… The highlight of this collection is the third section, titled ‘Anatomy’ … an extended meditation on the body as the place of fragmentation and reconnection, depersonalisation and reintegration…
– Liesl Jobson, FMR Book Choice