April 28, 2009

first time i actually cried at a poetry reading.

i've never been so moved. i have a new hero. i want to be antije krog. i want to have her effulgence of life springing out of me at every turn! i want to be overcome with living in all its wonders and splendors! i tell you she was miraculous to behold. this is life, people! this is life!!!

listen to her here!

and listen to all 9 parts of the poem and krog's reading in all her afrikaans glory, it's so worth it...


I want
the I that is I
to stay

but where
does it begin,
this being-I?

at the place
where the I is like you
or there where the I is other than you?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

oh wow, this is so amazing!