Red in Awe: Life in Poetry
Christa Kleynhans, ALLART STUDIOS Ian Langenhoven and Allesandra Leonardi
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(ALLART BOOKS, Feb. 13, 2014)
Red in Awe is a brutally honest portrayal of one woman’s life, lived and survived, through poems. Interlaced with commentary from the author, the poems are beautifully written with humour, sadness, deep regret, but above all, with love and experience.Life is not an easy lesson, and in this book the reader not only questions society, but the role it plays in directing their own life and the subsequent events which led to the person they are today.Red in Awe is an inspiring, thought provoking, honest reflection of the life of a woman growing up in South Africa.There is not a woman who won’t identify with one or more of the these poems, and not a man who won’t see either a reflection of his own mother, sister, wife, or daughter, among these pages. The poems aim to have one re-evaluate some of the decisions one made in one’s own life. This book is a true reflection of the difficulties we face everyday just to survive this thing we call... life — Kim Theron, Johannesburg