Reveries of longing /

Kiguwa, Melissa.

Reveries of longing / Melissa Kiguwa. - Oxford : African Perspectives Publishing, 2014. - 1 online resource (97 pages)

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Author's Note; At a Womyn's Meeting in Phoenix; Hometown Checkpoints; Reflections in the City: I; Planting Season; The Brooklyn Village Womyn; Lonely to Destitute; Dating 101; Insurgent Love-Making; Wanderlust; Brimstone in the Promised Land; Church Politics; Reflections in the City: II; Butch Queens at a Funeral; Raise the Sun; Nobody Talks; As if the Gods were Playing; A Poet's Prayer; Afro-Wanderings; On Distance; Sense; M; I Speak a Holy Ghost; Reflections in the City: III; Forced Penetration; If I were to Blow up the Embassy; 3:43 a.m. To Trayvon and Oscar and Emmitt and Him and Him and HimReflections in the City: IV; Lust; Take Over; How to Love a Revolutionary; Praise; Yoga PTSD; Un-Broken; Acknowledgements; Back cover.

Melissa Kiguwa is a blue writer, performer, a social critic, television and radio personality in South Africa. Raised by a Haitian father and a Ugandan mother, Melissa considers herself an Afro-diasporic nomad. Migration, imperialism, gender, spirituality, sexuality and capitalism influences much of her work. - See more at: http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/reveries-of-longing#sthash.TyEPLdmf.dpuf.

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