Beyond the delivery room / Khadija Heeger ; book and cover design by Megan Ross ; Rustum Kozain, editor.

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Heeger, Khadija

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9781920590710
1920590714
1920397361
9781920397364

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond the delivery room.DDC classification:

821.92080968 23

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PR9365.72 .H444 2013eb

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Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Skin matters; Quicksand; Citizen minus; Die dood sing; Displace; Breaking news; Under my tongue; Black Label introduction; Pearls and beads; A very new old South Africa; Any other planet but here; Whore's paradise; About AIDS; Jewelled fingerprints; Island; Where has the girl gone?; About Rape; About Human; Stone words; A song from the egg; Home; Love around midnight; Sleeping beauty; Princes; In-fantasy; A story-poem of imperfection; A love poem for Africa; Surrender; Men-on-pause; Short legs, long road home; Back cover.

Summary: A debut collection of poems from popular performance poet, Khadija Heeger. The collection is the first in a trilogy of poems that Heeger has worked on over many years. This collection is a combination of story-telling, resistance, re-naming, remembering. The language of the book is personal to the poet and reflects the wider community and society she is part of. She mixes languages, English and Afrikaans, and the language of the Cape called Kaaps.

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A debut collection of poems from popular performance poet, Khadija Heeger. The collection is the first in a trilogy of poems that Heeger has worked on over many years. This collection is a combination of story-telling, resistance, re-naming, remembering. The language of the book is personal to the poet and reflects the wider community and society she is part of. She mixes languages, English and Afrikaans, and the language of the Cape called Kaaps.

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