Burnt Offering.

Burnt Offering is Joan Metelerkamp's seventh collection of poems. The title comes from a poem in a cycle that embodies the labours of the medieval alchemists - heating and burning, transformation of passionate intensity, the search for an enduring element. In the process malignant doubt is burn...

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Main Author: Metelerkamp, Joan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Modjaji Books, 2008.
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