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- Please, Take Photographs
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- 2009
- Published by: Modjaji Books
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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, Magona leads you headlong into her fireside circle where archetypes flicker like shadows on a face that has seen, and been. Please, Take Photographs is defiant and tender, horrific and homely, at once irreverent, outspoken and beautiful.
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- Front Cover
- pp. c-ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- pp. iv-v
- Buried treasure
- pp. 10-11
- It takes a village
- p. 14
- Motherhood
- p. 14
- Imagination
- p. 17
- They brought light
- p. 22
- Fear of change
- pp. 24-25
- The great learning
- p. 26
- World champions
- p. 32
- Community building
- p. 33
- On the run
- p. 34
- The leader
- p. 35
- What Africa needs
- p. 36
- All are precious
- p. 37
- Imperfect present
- p. 38
- On her blindness
- p. 39
- Our house is on fire
- p. 41
- Speak, bones!
- pp. 42-44
- Please, take photographs!
- pp. 45-46
- Song of the orphan
- p. 47
- Poem to a brother
- pp. 48-49
- Noon, in the village
- p. 50
- Foreign Aid
- p. 51
- The sermon of the bones
- pp. 52-53
- A war picture
- p. 54
- A good woman
- pp. 56-57
- A mother remembers
- p. 58
- Why I write
- p. 60
- Madam, please!
- pp. 61-62
- Done did my bit
- p. 63
- Picture perfect
- p. 64
- Of a morning
- p. 65
- Hands off my brain!
- p. 69
- Brother, wait!
- p. 70
- Unseen wounds
- pp. 71-72
- To lovers past
- pp. 73-74
- The village
- p. 77
- Our thanks
- p. 78
- Village time
- pp. 79-82
- Back Cover
- p. bc
Additional Information
ISBN
9781920397111
Related ISBN(s)
9780980272956
MARC Record
OCLC
726828813
Pages
82
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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