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Serurubele Poetries

Author: Kano Shoro

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2015-09-23

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9956762326

Serurubele Poetries is a collection of poetry written from the perspective of a young (South) African female. The poems range from prose poetry to one-liner musings. With the life cycle of a butterfly as its basis, the collection asks the reader to go through the metamorphosis. The poems seek to playfully, seriously, honestly, fictitiously live and breathe beyond just the writers imagination because that is where many of them were formed and remain. The poems never stop seeking to reflect the intersections between particularities and universalisms, multiple voices and realities, as well as the nuances embedded in any given experience.

Serurubele

Author: Shoro, Katleho Kano

Publisher: Modjaji Books

Published: 2017-08-16

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1928215289

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Serurubele means ‘butterfly’ in Sesotho. It is the art of metamorphosis, a mind in flight and the beat of poetic expression. I offer you my perspectives, my many mothers’ teachings. I present both hopelessness and moments that excite, the taxi mgosi that makes me write. Johannesburg performance-poet Katleho Kano Shoro puts her stage presence into print with this metapoetic debut collection that captures the cadences of her fearless voice, her unassuming sense of humour, and her enthusiasm for an Afrocentric literary culture. Katleho reflects on creativity, on the writing, reading and performance of poetry, exploring the language that structures it, the forces that inspire it and the transformation that follows our experience of it. From there her words wander through personal relationships and politics, articulating ideas about masculinity, sexuality, blackness, colonialism and our connections to those we love. Crafted with both the spoken and written word in mind, Serurubele invites you not only to read poetry but to voice it, to taste the language as it flows from your tongue, to feel its rhythms and to hear its rhyme. Katleho has performed in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Grahamstown, Swaziland and London, and has been involved in myriad African literary initiatives. Recordings of her readings can be found online.

The Only Magic We Know

Author: Marike Beyers

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1928215890

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The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets collections.

The Postcolonial Animal

Author: Evan Mwangi

Publisher: African Perspectives

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0472054198

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Argues for an innovative and overdue posthuman reading of African postcolonial literature

The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems

Author: Marilyn Nelson

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 0807143103

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"...In "The Cachoeira tales" longing to take her family on a journey to "some place sanctified by the Negro soul," the poet finds herself in Brazil's Bahia, along with a theater director, a jazz musician, a retired commercial pilot, an activist, a university student, and two mysterious African American women whom they meet along the way. In rhymed couplets, each pilgrim tells a story, and the result is a rollicking, sensual exploration of spirit and community, with a nod to Chaucer and to traditional Trickster tales." -- dust jacket flap.

Keeping the Sun Secret

Author: Marial Awendit

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2022-03-11

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1779272677

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The poems in this collection are deep musings and enigmatic thoughts of the poet, gained over many years spent seeking meaningful interaction and acceptance with the world around him. The author, a widely published poet from South Sudan seeks to be understood through his reactions to war, love, tyranny, injustice, faith and various circumstances.

Bearing Witness

Author: Joyce Ashuntantang

Publisher: Spears Media Press

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Bearing Witness: Poems from a Land in Turmoil is a poetic response to the devastating Anglophone Crisis/Ambazonian Conflict in Cameroon that has killed thousands of children, women and men, displaced over half a million people and left hundreds of communities in ruins. The poems in this volume capture an all-encompassing landscape marked by alienation, despair, displacement, loss, anger, trauma, as well as courage, hope, heroism, justice and resilience. These poems also engender psychic healing which has the potential of turning victims into survivors. With over 100 poems by 73 poets—seasoned and emerging, old and young, men and women—this collection is not only a guidepost of collective memory, but also the definitive literary work of this period in Cameroon’s checkered history.

Blood of the Sun

Author: Salgado Maranhão

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1571314539

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In poems brilliantly textured and layered, Salgado Maranhao integrates socio-political thought with subjects abstractly metaphysical. Concrete collides with conceptual--butcher shops, sex, and machine guns in conversation with language, absence, and time--resulting in a collection varied as well as unified, an aesthetic at once traditional and postmodern. Writing in forms both fixed and free, Maranhao's language suggests a jazz-like musicality that rings true in Alexis Levitin's masterful translations. For readers who enjoy the complexity of Charles Simic, or the stylistically innovative syntax of Cesar Vallejo, Maranhao's "Blood of the Sun "is a sensually provocative amalgamation of both.

Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology: Volume 1

Author: Mwanaka, Tendai Rinos

Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd

Published: 2018-09-23

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0797496424

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Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology: Volume 1 contains 89 poems and translations in Shona, English, Tonga, and Chibarwe. 32 poets and translators tackle issues such as poetry, writing in general, art, place, identity, tradition, struggle, collective understanding, individual, human rights and love.