Author: Pinnock, Patricia Schonstein.
Title: A Gathering of Madonnas and Other Poems.
Description: African Sun. Cape Town 2001. Printed wraps. 46pp 8vo. No inscriptions, a VG-Fine copy. ISBN: 9781874915140 Author's 4th collection of poetry.Women victims of war form the central theme of poems which capture the plight of refugees and displaced persons in Africa. "I see madonnas in grocery shops, on pavements, on the grass verges of highways. They have, all of them, a certain poetic elegance, a poignancy. Many of these madonnas are refugees from war and in their eyes are simple longings which the world should listen to: longings for an end to war and a return home; longings to find their lost children; longings for a simple peace".

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