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Author Heeger, Khadija.

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

Publication Info. Cape Town, South Africa : Modjaji Books, 2013.
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (64 pages)
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 21, 2014).
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.
Subject South African poetry (English) -- 21st century.
FICTION -- General.
South African poetry (English) (OCoLC)fst01127212
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
Added Author Ross, Megan, 1989-
Kozain, Rustum.
Other Form: Print version: Heeger, Khadija. Beyond the delivery room. Cape Town, South Africa : Modjaji Books, ©2013 62 pages 9781920397364
ISBN 9781920590710 (electronic bk.)
1920590714 (electronic bk.)
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