Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Robert Berold

Robert Berold, from South Africa, has a great poem "The Return" here at PoetryInternational--I knew I had to highlight him immediately. He's got a really good style of clean, complex layers of imagery with rainforest or nature-focused tough--his poem "Boubou" here is great too.

Here's a quick excerpt:

Sounds are rich in the forest of return
sourbush smells and hints of fear
Behind me is the ink of the cathedral
and the soft raindrops which slant the air. [...]

And here's one from "The Return:"

the gods return
we hear them
unpacking on the stairs

the ones who came from
the gate of crocodiles [...]

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