'mamaseko

Thabile Makue

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781496219602
• eBook ISBN: 9781496220097
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: African Poetry
• Index: Literature

Named after the poet's mother, 'mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. Thabile Makue questions what it means to be beings of blood—to relate by blood, to live by blood. In her poems Makue looks for traces of shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Epigraph
• li taola
• li teboho
• mali
• maseko
• giving birth to my mother
• unborn
• inside
• outside
• the bondage
• the daughter’s inheritance
• her mother’s loss
• the children’s right
• giving birth to my father
• grandmother’s womb
• blood crowing
• uncreation
• ‘mele
• and these are eyes
• and these are lips
• and this is nose
• and this is tongue
• and these are ears
• and this is heart
• ‘mele oa bobeli
• root body
• year body
• blood body
• time body
• too many body
• fight body
• wound body
• naha
• not to die alone
• refugee bones
• mantsoe
• before the next one
• out of battle
• secheso
• passage
• mollo
• marriage distress signal
• church womxn
• the wailers
• hush now baby
• close
• the handmaid’s psalm
• popelo
• gray mountain
• sunset
• sunrise
• moonlight
• starlet
• to be wind
• river border bosoms
• the purge i
• drought
• the flood
• the purge ii
• bolokoe
• peppermint girl
• hungry belly universe
• those hungry girls
• pheko
• ghost
• not to forget
• grandmother’s marriage
• to torch
• apology to sara
• the patch up
• the rot the peace
• where does love go
• the hunger
• not to love you
• baleful heart
• phupjane
• april
• phato
• may wrists
• wait
• end ballade
• roof top blue
• end haunt
• body over water
• end year
• li teboho
• glossary
• About Thabile Makue
• Series List