Ingrid de Kok (born 1951) is a South African author and poet.

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  • Map age genes place of origin
    and love's lineaments.

    For mapped onto each body is love.

    Carthography of one's own country
    or the contours of a foreign land

Works

  • Familiar Ground (Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1988)
  • Transfer (Snailpress, Cape Town, 1997)
  • Terrestrial Things (Kwela/Snailpress, Cape Town, 2002)
  • Seasonal Fires: Selected and New Poems (Seven Stories Press, NYC, 2006); also published as Seasonal Fires: Selected and New Poems (Umuzi, Random House, South Africa, 2006)
  • Mappe del corpo (A cura di Paola Splendore, Donzelli Poesia, Rome, 2008)

This quote has been given from Ingrid de Kok at the occasion of the Cape Town Book Fair to WikiAfrica Literature project, a project conceived by lettera27. It is published on a postcard.

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