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Availability:In StockContributor:Tjawangwa Dema, Kwame Dawes (Foreword by)Series:African Poetry BookPublish date:2019-03-01Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496214126ISBN-10:1496214129UPC:9781496214126Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, AfricanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCT449Q65K
Careless Seamstress
This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema's collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political. The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with...
Series: African Poetry Book
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496214126ISBN-10:1496214129UPC:9781496214126Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, AfricanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCT449Q65K
Tjawangwa Dema is a poet from Botswana, an arts administrator, and a teaching artist in Bristol, England. Her chapbook, Mandible, was published in the box set Seven New Generation African Poets, and her poems have appeared in the New Orleans Review, the Cordite Review, and the Rio Grande Review.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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