Publisher: Modjaji Books, South Africa
This edition is a re-release of Xaba’s first
poetry collection (first published in 2005) due to demand from readers
and academics. A powerful, ground breaking work that placed Xaba firmly
as an important voice the SA literary scene.
Words
Whenever I take the pulse
of my existence,
feel the pinch
of my persistence
against the grinding grain
of my resistance
to the pounding punch
of their insistence,
words transmit to me
a drumroll of deliverance.
£18.00
About the author
MAKHOSAZANA
XABA is the author of two poetry collections: these hands (2005) and,
Tongues of their Mothers (2008). Her poetry has been anthologized
widely, translated into Italian, Mandarin and Turkish and also available
from the Cambridge Poetry Archive. She is the editor of, Like the
untouchable wind: An anthology of poems (2016). Her collection of
collection of fiction, Running & other stories (2013), won the SALA
Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award in 2014. Her short story “Running” won
the Deon Hofmeyr Prize for Creative Writing in 2005 and was
anthologised in, 20 Best Short Stories of South Africa’s Democracy, in
2014. She has co-edited three anthologies; Proudly Malawian: Life
Stories from lesbian and gender-nonconforming individuals (2016) and
Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction (2013) which won the 26th Lambda
Literary Award for the fiction anthology category in 2014 and was
translated in Spanish in the same year. In 2017, Queer Africa 2: New
Fiction is coming out. Xaba holds an MA in Writing (with distinction)
from The University of the Witwatersrand.
Review
“Finally, and essentially, back in print, Makhosazana Xaba’s debut
collection contains powerful societal critique alongside moving
meditations on love and intimacy. Writing in incisive, unadorned
language, Xaba confronts racism and misogyny to devastating effect. She
then turns her hand to the intimacies that exist between women, within
family, and between the poet and her own writing.”
JENNY DU PREEZ
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