About this book
Rehema Njambi unpacks identity, faith, womanhood and – above all – agency, in poems partly inspired by conversations with the Black, mostly African, women around her.
Imbued with quiet resistance to patriarchal societies, Njambi's debut collection is an ode to the women who have raised her, and their strength and their ability to hold, sustain, and be rooted in their faith. The poems resound with their idea of home, and belonging they wish to pass on to their daughters.
GHOSTS IN THIS HOUSE
There were footsteps in the dark all night,
almost every night, and we were scared —
but we didn't say a thing.
She called us to prayer in the morning, every morning.
With our small hands and smaller faith
we asked the Lord for protection —
but He didn't say a thing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Other Titles from the Emma Press
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- All These Truths You Never Set Free
- Found Wanting
- Confession
- Marriage Circa 1975
- A Piece of Land
- ‘Yet Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves’
- A Lending, Not a Giving
- In Holy Matrimony
- And I Am Angry Because
- Our Marriage Dies in a Dream
- Envy
- Ghosts In This House
- One Of Them
- We Do Not Mend Broken Things
- I Make Small Observances For You
- Ihoya
- Vigil for Loneliness
- Prayer on My Mother’s Tongue
- Call Me Mara
- The Language of Grief
- Notes
- About the Poet
