Makhosazana Xaba

Quotes

• “It is a summer of songs composed in blood,tuned with guns and arranged in conversations.It is a summer of songs I sing in swelling volumes.”
• “I write poetry from my personal space, in my personal voice. I say “I am here”. I address women in the world.”
• “I was still in the queue at the bookshop when I read the contents page, and I began to smile, because Tongues of their Mothers—my second poetry collection—is also divided into four sections using the names of seasons. In your book, there are eleven poems in Winter, fifteen in Summer, three in Spring and thirteen in Autumn.”
• “These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts.”

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