Dead Roots Nortje AWS 141 (Heinemann African Writers Series) - Softcover

Dead Roots. Poems

Heinemann African Writers Series, number 141. 185 x 123 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (xiv) + 146. Cover a bit rubbed; edges foxed. Good condition. An uncommon volume in the series. "Arthur Nortje died in Oxford in 1970 of an overdose of drugs. His tragically early death removed a poet who had every promise of becoming one of the leading South African poets." - From the cover blurb. "Recipient with Dennis Brutus of a 1962 Mbari Poetry Prize, his posthumously published volumes Dead Roots and Lonely against the Light (both 1973) as well as his Notebook (housed at Northwestern University) and many poems in manuscript, testify to Nortje's acute sense of personal and cultural alienation." - Adey, et al: Companion to South African English Literature, p. 146. Artikel-Nr. 14138

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