O Wheel

by Peter M. Sacks

This collection of poems by Peter Sacks uses an edgy mix of the intense violence of South Africa's history, the personal struggles of the human soul to speak freely and experience justice, and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820321842
• ISBN13: 9780820321844
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Powerful, visionary, aesthetically intricate poetry.

O Wheel is a collection of powerful, visionary, aesthetically intricate poetry by a master wordsmith who contents with nihilism, extracting hope from even the most desperate aspects of human nature. The poetry of Peter Sacks is superbly engaging, profoundly moving, literate and memorable. Look In Your Heart: Unshelled/floatrock and mother-lode./The mountain sagged then broke apart,/each ounce so concentrated nothing held/whatever stamp of its disfiguring/the mind made uncontainable./Gloved tongues./The body wrapped and set where space had been./Crush out the breath crush out the words/they feed and carry it away./Where we have fallen./Crawling out.