Natal Command (Paper)

In this collection of poems, Peter Sacks draws upon his life as an expatriate and upon his early years in South Africa, including his time spent with the military. He lays bare his sense of both personal and historical losses, and his commitment to the works of mourning and cultural repair. 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.