Andries Walter Oliphant is a writer, theorist, cultural leader, and playwright. He’s a former Fulbright Scholar in Comparative Literature and has won awards for his literary criticism and his own writing.
‘Childhood in Heidelberg’ by Andries Walter Oliphant is a thoughtful a complicated poem in which the speaker, a child, discusses their life growing up in Heidelberg, South Africa.
I was born in a house where ancestors
were suspended from the walls.
On hot afternoons they would descend and walk silently
through the cool passages
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