This collection of verse contains poems from Malawi's foremost writer, most of which were written in the 1970s. Poet, fiction writer, playwright, and children's author Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo was born in Zomba, Malawi, and educated at the University of Malawi, the University of Wales, the University of Leeds, and Columbia University. Mythology and oral culture inform his poetry, and he frequently used both modernist techniques and wry humor to address political themes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright page
- Title page
- DEDICATION
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Napolo
- Beggar Woman
- Obituary
- Four Ways of Dying
- Derailment: A Delirium
- Three Songs
- Of Promises and Prophecy
- Chingwe’s Hole Revisited
- A Death Song
- Writers’ Workshop Revisited
- Lies Unlimited
- Meanwhile in the Drought
- Developments from the Grave
- The Sinking Cenotaph
- The Road to Thakadzo
- Past Hero-Bearing Age
- The Politics of Potholes
- Modern Advertising
- Gravemates
- The New House
- Formula for Funerals
- Who Is Responsible?
- Mlauli’s Musings
- Zomba Mountain
- Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
- Pyagusi
- A Nation of Corpses
- Advice to Mbona the Prophet
- The Lasting Flute
- Letter to Mchona
- The Artists’ Cenotaph
- Street Seller’s Song
- The Cry at Birth
- Just Before One for the Road
- Nachifukan Man Left No Traces
- Morning at Mvuu Camp
- Operational Corpses
- A Writer’s Desk at Sixty
- Usayelekele Mine
- And Now, Our Honorable MP
- Those Beggars on Fridays
- The Last Hitch Hike
- have you been served?
- Song of the Loincloth
- Pounding Hymn
- Poetry Power
- A Word on Poetry
- Back cover
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