In this Book
- Beyond the Delivery Room
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Modjaji Books
summary
A debut collection of poems from popular performance poet, Khadija Heeger. The collection is the first in a trilogy of poems that Heeger has worked on over many years. This collection is a combination of story-telling, resistance, re-naming, remembering. The language of the book is personal to the poet and reflects the wider community and society she is part of. She mixes languages, English and Afrikaans, and the language of the Cape called Kaaps.
Table of Contents
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- Skin matters
- p. 8
- Citizen minus
- pp. 10-12
- Die dood sing
- p. 13
- Breaking news
- pp. 16-18
- Under my tongue
- pp. 19-20
- Black Label
- pp. 21-25
- Pearls and beads
- pp. 26-27
- A very new old South Africa
- pp. 28-30
- Any other planet but here
- pp. 31-32
- Whore’s paradise
- p. 33
- About AIDS
- p. 34
- About Rape
- p. 38
- About human
- pp. 39-40
- Stone words
- p. 41
- A song from the egg
- pp. 42-43
- Love around midnight
- pp. 46-48
- Sleeping beauty
- p. 49
- In-fantasy
- p. 51
- A story-poem of imperfection
- pp. 52-54
- Men-on-pause
- pp. 58-59
- Short legs, long road home
- pp. 60-61
Additional Information
ISBN
9781920590710
Related ISBN(s)
9781920397364
MARC Record
OCLC
899262182
Pages
64
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No