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a naked bone

Winner of the 2019 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry

mangaliso buzani

Deep South | Paperback | ISBN: 9780994710468

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In simple vocabulary a naked bone describes complex states of beauty and suffering, often at the borderline where life meets death. In their dreamlike rhythms and images, the poems draw strength from Xhosa culture, Christianity, and elements of nature. They are love poems in the widest sense, embracing the interface between daily life and the spiritual, enacting joy and caring in the face of deprivation and mourning.

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Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry

Other Books In This Series:

Collective Amnesia
100 Days
a naked bone
A Book of Rooms
Waslap
through the window of a sandcastle
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