Disgrace Angsana Books It analyses the very act

It analyses the very act of writing itself and its limits

victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel

selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize

Publisher: Yale University Press

Disgrace Angsana Books It analyses the very actAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated small holding. For a time, his daughter's influence and natural rhythms of