Overview

Named after the poet's mother, 'mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. Thabile Makue questions what it means to be beings of blood-to relate by blood, to live by blood. In her poems Makue looks for traces of shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.

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Author:   Thabile Makue
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:  

9781496219602

ISBN 10:   1496219600
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 March 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

li teboho     mali maseko     giving birth to my mother     unborn     inside     outside     the bondage     the daughter’s inheritance     her mother’s loss     the children’s right     giving birth to my father     grandmother’s womb     blood crowing     uncreation     ‘mele and these are eyes     and these are lips     and this is nose     and this is tongue     and these are ears     and this is heart     ‘mele oa bobeli root body     year body     blood body     time body     too many body     fight body     wound body     naha not to die alone     refugee bones     mantsoe     before the next one     aragonda out of battle     secheso passage     mollo     marriage distress signal     church womxn     the wailers     hush now baby     close     the handmaid’s psalm     popelo gray mountain     sunset     sunrise     moonlight     starlet     to be wind     river border bosoms     the purge i     drought     the flood     the purge ii     bolokoe peppermint girl     hungry belly universe     those hungry girls     pheko aragonda     not to forget     grandmother’s marriage     to torch     apology to sara     the patch up     the rot the peace     where does love go     the hunger     not to love you     baleful heart     phupjane april     phato     may wrists     wait     end ballade     roof top blue     end haunt     body over water     end year     li teboho     glossary    

Reviews

“The author’s focus on blood as both the root and the salve for violence is an ingenious metaphor employed throughout the book under numerous guises.”—Veronica Schorr, New York Journal of Books  

The author's focus on blood as both the root and the salve for violence is an ingenious metaphor employed throughout the book under numerous guises. --Veronica Schorr, New York Journal of Books -- New York Journal of Books

The author's focus on blood as both the root and the salve for violence is an ingenious metaphor employed throughout the book under numerous guises. -Veronica Schorr, New York Journal of Books

Author Information

Thabile Makue is a South African healer, facilitator, and writer at AfroElle magazine. She was the 2016–17 Current State of Poetry National South African Slam champion. Her debut collection, i know how to fix myself, was released in 2017 by the African Poetry Book Fund as part of their New-Generation African Poets chapbook box set Nne. Her work has been included in multiple journals as well as 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent.  

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