Description This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema.
The tropes are familiar, but.
The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with difficulty and consequence.
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.
Description This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema