| ISBN | 9781928215769 |
| Pages | 82 |
| Dimensions | 210 x 148 mm |
| Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Modjaji Books, South Africa |
| Format | Paperback |
Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner
by Tariro Ndoro
An honest exploration of dislocation and (un)belonging in its forms: exile from language, exile from country, and exile from sanity. In her debut collection of poetry, Ndoro divides and intermingles national and personal history in an attempt to reach herself. Within its fragmented prose and lyrical poems, Agringada is not only a celebrated capture of language but also of its intriguing subversion as it navigates meetings of class, gender, nationality and race.
Reviews
“Tariro Ndoro wields many tongues to give a testament of the
innumerable ways humans survive. She is not concerned with comforting
you with hope: poems end with severed limbs, and you too are dragged
through southern African borders. She leaves you panting, too afraid to
stop for a sip of self-pity, and she has made you too familiar with her
foreignness to want belong disappears, yet, you are acutely aware that you are
alive. Agringada is a powerful way of speaking life into things that
suffocate when we are too afraid to name them.”
“A love song to language, and all her betrayals and liberations; a linguist’s dance through political, psychological and psychic borders. My favourite 2019 read so far.”