The text reflects on the past, and many of the troubles we face today were wrought in the past. The text is indeed a quest for kindness in the face of our history, one in which the very notion of forgiveness seems nebulous.
“The genesis of this long poem lies in a twelve-year sojourn in Saudi Arabia, where I worked, teaching at a university in the oil-rich eastern province of that country.
In this poetry collection, Frank Meintjies navigates, to quote one of the poems, “the land, the land, the land” and engages with issues of dislocation, diverse landscapes, nature, attachments to place, and community.
In this, his third collection of poetry, Solomons foregrounds portraits as well as memories of personal shifts, and reflections in the context of a broad national and global milieu ruptured, intermittently, by pandemics and political upheavals. Ultimately, the poetry seeks to forge a creative fulcrum on which to balance this unfolding vision, share insights and sustain engagement.
The collection deals with strange and mysterious subject matter such as mysticism,
surrealism, Middle Eastern mythology, and dreams. 
The text reflects on the past, and many of the troubles we face today were wrought in the past. The text is indeed a quest for kindness in the face of our history, one in which the very notion of forgiveness seems nebulous. 
“The genesis of this long poem lies in a twelve-year sojourn in Saudi Arabia, where I worked, teaching at a university in the oil-rich eastern province of that country. 
In this poetry collection, Frank Meintjies navigates, to quote one of the poems, “the land, the land, the land” and engages with issues of dislocation, diverse landscapes, nature, attachments to place, and community. 
In this, his third collection of poetry, Solomons foregrounds portraits as well as memories of personal shifts, and reflections in the context of a broad national and global milieu ruptured, intermittently, by pandemics and political upheavals. Ultimately, the poetry seeks to forge a creative fulcrum on which to balance this unfolding vision, share insights and sustain
engagement.