Sunrise Over South Africa

From the traveler's exhaustion to the bustle of an open market, from a crowd of larcenous monkeys to the "inner cry" of Soweto, from stuffed pancakes to aloe trees, from breathtaking vistas to busy baboons and abusive ostriches - these poems will spark the memories and enrich the experience of any traveler to Africa. Joseph Kuhn Carey is the poet of joyful touristry, and Sunrise Over South Africa is his most joyous book. It is also his most substantial, the pages enriched by quotations from...