O Wheel is a book of amazing delicacy, intricacy, and formal beauty that nevertheless reveals terrifying truths. Its backdrop is an edgy mix of the intense violence of South Africa's recent history, the intensely personal struggles of the human soul for the rights to speak freely and to experience justice, and the expanse of the American literary landscape. Sacks employs a variety of poetic styles and approaches that break ground formally as well as thematically. With a vision that is at once personal and public, he contends with nihilism and extracts hope from even the most barbaric aspects of human nature. O Wheel offers sensitive and striking poems that menace, overwhelm, entice, provoke, and deeply move the reader.
| LoC Classification |
PS3569.A235O3 2000 |
| Dewey |
811/.54 |
| Nationality |
South African |
| Cover Price |
$15.95 |
| No. of Pages |
92 |
| Height x Width |
9.0
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6.0
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Born in South Africa in 1950, he fled his native country during the apartheid era to avoid fighting racial wars in the army e is a professor of English at Harvard University.
Sacks, originally from South Africa (a heritage that colors much of his poetry), first came to the United States as an exchange student in Detroit when he was 17. Intending to become a physician, Sacks developed his love of poetry as an undergraduate at Princeton in the early 70s, and went on to study at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and take a doctorate at Yale in English.
