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    Serurubele: Poems by Katleho Kano Shoro
    Serurubele: Poems by Katleho Kano Shoro
    Serurubele: Poems by Katleho Kano Shoro
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    Serurubele: Poems by Katleho Kano Shoro

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    Johannesburg performance-poet Katleho Kano Shoro puts her stage presence into print with this metapoetic debut collection that captures the cadences of her fearless voice, her unassuming sense of humour, and her enthusiasm for an Afrocentric literary culture. Katleho reflects on creativity, on the writing, reading and performance of poetry, exploring the language that structures it, the forces that inspire it and the transformation that follows our experience of it. From there her words wander through personal relationships and politics, articulating ideas about masculinity, sexuality, blackness, colonialism and our connections to those we love. Crafted with both the spoken and written word in mind, Serurubele invites you not only to read poetry but to voice it, to taste the language as it flows from your tongue, to feel its rhythms and to hear its rhyme. Katleho has performed in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Grahamstown, Swaziland and London, and has been involved in myriad African literary initiatives. Recordings of her readings can be found online.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherModjaji Books
    Release dateAug 16, 2017
    ISBN9781928215516
    Serurubele: Poems by Katleho Kano Shoro

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      Book preview

      Serurubele - Kano Shoro

      First published by Modjaji Books 2017

      PO Box 121, Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa

      www.modjajibooks.co.za

      info@modjajibooks.co.za

      © Katleho Kano Shoro

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying and recording, or any other information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.

      ISBN: 978-1-928215-28-8

      Layout and design by Fire and Lion

      Cover artwork by Tammy Griffin and Karen Lilje

      Author photograph by Vus’umuzi Phakathi

      Contents

      In the name of poetry

      Living Libraries

      Remember me: Cape/Burg

      Spit not swallow

      Truth watered down

      Animals of colour

      Blasphemy

      Spit fire!

      Lekker juicy childish dreams

      Deliciously beautiful

      S’ponono

      Translations

      Sesotho sa ka will not be written in italics

      Pen

      The poet and her habit

      Absent performer

      Men of Fire

      A Poem’s Home

      A young debriefing for Sankara

      Upright men

      Spade

      Love Poem to Papa I

      Love Poem to Papa II

      Daughter notes

      It’s not over until the fat lady sings

      How do we mourn friendships?

      Funeral Sounds

      Unpunctuated ending

      We are skins

      Ode to Badimo le Baholo

      In the name of poetry

      In the name of poetry

      I offer you these words,

      translations of thought and

      symbols of feeling that fester and ferment within.

      I offer you remnants of poets who have taken me to church,

      spoke the word

      and prayed for my soul as they bore their own.

      I offer the time it takes to

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