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Because Sadness is Beautiful
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"Tanaka Chidora writes with the nerve and verve of firework displays in these poems. There is a peace armed to the teeth here, and over there words are just fugitives scuttling away from the recognition of the reader. Through this burst of iron vocabulary discipline, the poet suggests that even if sadness could be all we are left with, we still need to give sadness a try until it becomes beautiful, because sadness has always been beautiful, anyway." - Memory Chirere, University of Zimbabwe
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Foreword - Walking cities, conquering pavements: foreword to Tanaka Chidora’s Because Sadness is Beautiful?
- opening lines
- armed peace
- forgotten doubles
- the 3pm field inspection
- a tale of two writers
- one day I wrote about this place
- Magamba Hostels
- the things I carry
- slow country
- waiting
- to the seven
- silence
- the dying city
- this old country
- sounds
- austere days
- a broken grin
- portrait of a policeman's gumboot connecting with shrivelled buttocks
- the death of Vanda
- the missing childhood
- tunnel walls
- independence
- flame
- freedom fighter
- freedom
- these ruins
- on these ruins
- leaving
- insanity
- madness
- the midnight preacher
- open defecation
- the benefits of hygiene
- the revenge of the oppressed
- portrait of the poet as a middle-aged man
- what if…
- forgetting
- roots
- the things I do
- pauses between my pride
- stains
- on finding yourself with nothing to do
- bar stool ruminations
- 2 keys
- drunk talk
- Gwayagwaya Braai Stand
- Chaucer’s pie chart
- where I come from
- Blocks 1-13, Magamba Hostels
- emptying
- winter poem
- losing
- to a love unreciprocated
- stranger
- falling
- she came
- kiss
- we danced
- the moon and you
- to be loved
- about last night
- heartbreak
- balanced life
- life
- Papa said
- innocence
- sunset
- Chigovanyika sunset
- nostalgia
- Mother
- Father
- memories
- poetry
- to write
- words in flesh
- wounds
- songs and dreams
- peace
- all poems are happy
- Back cover