And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Download or read book And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos written by John Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in our cities today. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.