Please, Take Photographs.
Sindiwe Magona's poems conspire with her. Even years after being written, they still seem warm from her lips, and it is this residue of her telling them that draws you into their confidence. From the languid innocence of the poems about her village, to her shattering images of Africa at war, Ma...
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Modjaji Books,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Across the River Kei; Buried treasure; It takes a village; A rock; Motherhood; Being; Writing; Imagination; For Maria; They brought light; Great is the white man!; Fear of change; The great learning; Mine boys; The prize; Men at the corner of the road; Victims of an undeclared war; World champions; Community building; On the run; The leader; What Africa needs; All are precious; Imperfect present; On her blindness; Apples; Our house is on fire; Speak, bones!; Please, take photographs!; Song of the orphan; Poem to a brother.
- Noon, in the villageForeign Aid; The sermon of the bones; A war picture; Spectre of zero expectations; A good woman; A mother remembers; Statement; Why I write; Madam, please!; Done did my bit; Picture perfect; Of a morning; The revolution within; Freedom; Hands off my brain!; Brother, wait!; Unseen wounds; To lovers past; A wish; A promise; The village; Our thanks; Village time; Back Cover.
