This is a second collection from the excellent Eastern Cape poet Mxolisi Nyezwa. As the blurb says, Nyezwa's work is lyrical and deeply expressionistis, and register the intuitiveness of Nyezwa's vision of his land and his life. Nyezwa has carved for himself a voice and a style that is entirely his own and unlike any other South African poet before him.
One of the poems reads:
this little girl
this little girl
outside kfc
in njoli road
asking me for food
could not tell me
why the moon
tore her heart
and wrung her body
like a spell.
New country is published by University of KwaZulu-Natal Press and is available in bookstores countrywide.
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