"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing.  Meer

First published in 1970. Part of a collection on African Studies, this text is a narrative of the personal adventures of the author during a tour of nine months through the desert, amongst the Touaricks and other tribes of the Saharan people and includes a description of the oases and cities of Ghat, Ghadames and Mourzuk.  Meer

"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing.  Meer