Natal Command

by Peter M. Sacks

Peter Sacks draws upon his life as an expatriate as well as upon his early years in South Africa, including his time spent in the military, to create a remarkably powerful book of poetry. At turns meditative and narrative, Sacks is unafraid to lay bare in vivid imagery his sense of both personal and historical losses, and his commitment to the works of mourning and of cultural repair. Even the love poems emerge from this book with the impress of both bittersweet aspiration and regret.

Genres: Poetry

87 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Peter M. Sacks (born in 1950) is an expatriate South African painter/poet living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Normandy, France.

Reviews

[Jeca · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish for a half star to add here. Much, must stronger than Necessity, which seems like kind of cubist interpretation of this volume. All the parts from here, but at too many angles at once they never coalesce into anything you can hold onto.

I liked elegy for his father and his homeland and the love poems best here