Description
Crying in My Mother’s Tongue: Ukulila
Publiser: Akashic Books
Series: Kumi: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set, edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani.
Format: Trade Paperback
Recommended Price: R124.00
Published: August 2024
*Qhali’s single poetry chapbook is only distributed by Kairos Ark. Limited stock available. For the full Kumi boxset visit: https://a.co/d/0AzNC8d
About the book:
“In a village called Tsolobeng over the Tina river
there is an empty house built upon the bones of a queen
Mamorena they called her
She birthed six kings one died on her back”
~ The Pregnant Tree in Our Village, Qhali
“Crying in My Mother’s Tongue: Ukulila” is Qhali’s debut poetry collection published by Akashic Books. The book is of the chapbooks in the latest Chapbook set, Kumi: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set, edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani.
“Such is the deft weave-work of Qhali . . . It’s an intricate tapestry in which language braids to the body, disappearing for a time into silence during its violation, emerging anew to demand witness, to brazenly detail every image of the grotesque, and finally to return to the land.”
—Safia Elhillo, from the preface
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