Bøker av Laraine Kentridge Lasdon

"Pine Tree on Silk and a Yellow Linen Chair" explores with readers, issues that travel through us and occupy the human experience. This Collection delves into universal emotions of a first love, grief, loss of memory and of a beloved parent. The poems also explore ideas of the meaning of freedom for South Africa and the USA, journeys of discovery inspired by biblical stories, and conjures up ideas from cultures spanning from China to India. Underlying her work is a belief that poetry has a moral compass that directs us to the heart of our emotions.

A Pineapple and an Old Yellow Curtain is a Collection inspired by the Great Lakes, the Great Hawk, the evolution of the earth and the human being's place in the world. The poems are small stories celebrating patient ghosts, expansive geology, small musings on mango, tea and ritual, pain and sorrow,anger and love. In the end, we discover who we are, who we can be and our "kinship" with gardens, oceans, clouds, and a bright guiding moon.