Judas Eye and Self-Portrait/Deathwatch - Breyten Breytenbach 1988 Farrar Strauss & Giroux 1st HBDJ Rhoda Lerman Series: (Rick Brant Science-Adventures #5)

Series:  (Rick Brant Science-Adventures #5)

From the archaeology to the zoology of the United States

Blurb:  “Charles Darwins's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture

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and tantalizing jokes

Judas Eye and Self-Portrait/Deathwatch - Breyten Breytenbach 1988 Farrar Strauss & Giroux 1st HBDJ Rhoda Lerman Series: (Rick Brant Science-Adventures #5)Condition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear. See images for the condition of this book. First American edition! Blurb: "Judas Eye really starts with the second poem it collects, "memory one": right at the get go it illustrates Breytenbach's marvellous talent for the surreal hook in the reader's heart, the brief glimpse of the wound which generates language but also the beauty of well crafted speech. It goes like this: I remember: for