I Cannot Myself
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- I Cannot Myself*
To come to this country, my body must assemble itself
into photographs and signatures. Among them they will search for me.
I must leave behind all uncertainties. I cannot myself be a question. [End Page 1062]
Gabeba Baderoon, who received her PhD in English at the University of Capetown in South Africa, is author of four books of poems: The Silence Before Speaking, The Museum of Ordinary Life, The Dream in the Next Body, and A Hundred Silences, finalist for the 2007 University of Johannesburg Prize and the 2007 Olive Schreiner Award. She has received many other citations and acknowledgements for her work, including the 2005 Daimler- Chrysler Award for South African Poetry, the Guest Writer Fellowship at the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy, and a Writer’s Residency at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Footnotes
* Originally published in The Dream in the Next Body (Cape Town: Kwela Books/Snailpress, 2005).
