“Alexandra Leaving” is partly based on a poem called “The God Abandons Antony,” which was written by Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy and first published in 1911.
Then there are poems written in the voice of Baartman herself: a mix of Khoekhoe dialect words and euphonic, often musical, phrasing. This wide-ranging method has, almost necessarily, mixed results.
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