Mutt Spirituals

"Mutt Spirituals manages to connect, with elegance and insight, the ragged, earthbound qualities of our messy lives to all that is transcendent. This is writing that travels across history and geography—from South Africa to England, from France to the United States, and literally into outer space. Though Kannemeyer looks at the hard topics of racist and ethnic discrimination, he never loses sight of the beauty that is at hand, praising, in one poem, 'the fierce, sweet grace-made-flesh of oranges.' Many of these poems and prose pieces are autobiographical, but Kannemeyer writes with such generosity that his personal history connects with our own, making us realize that like him, we need 'To tell our stories over till we matter.' I will return to this book again and again, always grateful that Kannemeyer is 'alive, telling the tale.'" Margaret Mackinnon, author of The Invented Child