Antjie Krog Biography
Anna Elizabeth (Antjie) Krog was born in 1952 into a family of authors - her mother is the famous Afrikaans writer Dot Serfontein - and made her debut as an Afrikaans poet while still in school, when in 1970 at the age of 18, her first volume of poetry, Dogter van Jefta was published. In 1972 her second volume, Januarie-suite, was published, and in 1973 it received the Eugène Marais Award. She completed a BA Degree and an Honors Degree in English (1973) at the University of the Free State and in 1976, she completed an MA Degree in Afrikaans at the University of Pretoria.
neither the moist intimacy of your eyelids fair as fennel
nor the violence of your body withholding behind sheets
nor what comes to me as your life
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under orders from my ancestors you were occupied
had I language I could write for you were land my land
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tonight everything speaks through the dead
towards me
your brittle bundle of bones
...
since we started walking
this road the irises
finished blooming the still
abandoned eyeballs of
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alles praat heen deur die dooies
na my toe
jou bros bondel bene
my liefste liewerlee
lê lankuit bewaar
ek is oraloor wakker vannag
maar van my het so min gekom
jy's al wat ek in die wêreld had
liefste dooieling
alleen en koud is dit tussen
my ribbes Afrika het my alles laat prysgee
dis so donker
dis so kil
sagte koggelaar
van my het so min gekom
ek is af
tot my laaste vel
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