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Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into poetry here are some poetry books from Botswana for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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The Careless Seamstress by Tjawangwa Dema EN

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Country: Africa / Botswana flag Botswana
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This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema’s collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political. The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with difficulty and consequence. The tropes are familiar, but in their animation they question and move in unexpected ways. The female body—as a daughter, wife, worker, cultural mutineer—moves continually acr... continue