A Dark Wood: Poetical Sketches on Life & Being in the World

By Wandile Ganya

A Dark Wood is a work articulating in poetic form a modern human experience of being in the world. The poems appear to emerge from a tautness between a self seeking authenticity and social identarian normativity. Hence, naturally, the thematic fabric of this work is unveiled as a craft interwoven in often counterposed, fragmentary ideas on meaning and meaninglessness, essence and nothingness, sanity and absurdity, pain and relief, life and death, love and liberty, or loneliness and so on; the piece On Existence provides perhaps a glancing suggestion thereof:

Like blind fisherman journeying in the ocean seas, we trawl through lifes inner sanctum
a universe so immense
groping for meaning in things,
but finding much travesty.
And everywhere, we are ensnared,
ever in infinite absurdities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Aug 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781546280576

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A DARK WOOD

POETICAL SKETCHES ON LIFE & BEING IN THE WORLD

WANDILE GANYA

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Published by AuthorHouse 08/03/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5462-8056-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-8057-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017911997

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To my twin brother, Wanele

Contents

Preface

Genesis

A Knot

Meditation

On Existence

Parousia

The Unveiling

The Dream Of Night

Night

Go Forth

And Into The Endless Woods I Bolted

In The Dark Of Wood

Parting

A Seed

Antemortem

Caprice

On The Transience Of Time

A Dreadful Clime

On Writing

On Love, Life, And Loss

Earthbound

An Ode To His Muse

The Existential Man

On Nihilism

Outsteppings

The Bedlamite

Schizophrenia

The Seclusion Room

Ileus

Euthanasia

Wanderer In The Dark

The Machine World

Plague

The City

Day To Day, Every Day

Caged Birds

Being-In-The-World

Will Of The Slaves

Digging

Upheaval

The Postcolony

Let Us Not To Die

The Swell Of Insurgency

Sun-Gazing

Tomorrow Shall At Once Be Dark

And That Day, The Haggard World

Torn

Polite Talk

The Wind And Its Chase

Calm

Seashore

A Moment

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