My heart in your hands : poems from Namibia / compiled by Naitsikile Iizyenda and Jill Kinahan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Namibian poetry (English)--21st century.

Namibian poetry (English).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 167 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Windhoek, Namibia : University of Namibia Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: THE POEMS

Where the Ocean and Desert Kiss

Only Namibian / Zemha Gawachas

Clouds / Klaus Rennack

From ocean to desert / Hannah H. Tarindwa

Huab and Ugab / Klaus Rennack

The Skeleton Coast / Batchotep

Swells Smash Dias Point / Crispin D. P. Clay

Riches in a Poor Country / Dianne Hubbard

Drought / Sifiso Nyati

Praying Mantis / Jacquie Tarr

Ses Fontein / Klaus Rennack

Katutura / Jacobina Kalunduka

Peace / Crispin D. P. Clay

MOTHERS OF NAMIBIA

Lady Mukwahepo / Mercy George

The mothers of Namibia / Pedro Vorster

Mother / Bronwen A. Beukes

There is depth in Mommy's strength / Anne-Marie Issa Brown Garises

Tornado (or, The Only Poem You Ever Wrote) / Remy Ngamije

Unconditional Love (a letter to my mother) / Gloria Ndilula

Dear Mamma / Job Ndeutapo Nghipandulwa

For Future Generations / Julia N.T. Nekomba

BORN OF THE TREE OF LIFE

African child! / Aristides Are' Sambiliye

Man of My Life / Clementine Tjameya

Never Date Men Like Your Father / Veripuami Nandeekua Kangumine

Matutura / Batchotep

The Omaere That Never Soured / Veripuami Nandeekua Kangumine

Namibian Beauty / Beauty Ndapanda

Lid smile / Magnus Elius Tjiueza

Hail to the Queen / Zemha Gawachas

I am We / Jane Mungabwa

John Muafangejo's prayer / Pedro Vorster

Alike / Remaliah Margarida Chingufo

Crystalize / Freeman Ngulu

Surface Tension arises from the polar nature of the water molecule / Tessa Harris

Authenticity / Kina Indongo

WHAT'S WRONG? (Social criticism)

What's wrong? / Saara Kadhikwa

Stir Not My Dear One / Anneli Nghikembua

You Broke Me, Daddy / Jane Mungabwa

Anomaly / Valery Mkabeta

Domestic worker / Ina-Maria Shikongo

The man with the cap / Hugh Ellis

Dordabis / Charles Mlambo

Shshsh...listen... / Kerry Jones

Syringes / Kavevangua Kahengua

The Weak-end of the Week / Prince Kamaazengi Marenga

Apartheid / Nandu Ndabeni

Struggle Kid* / Onesmus Shimwafeni

Land of broken dreams / Engelhardt Unaeb

Trouble in paradise / Hijenduanao Uanivi

FIGHTING THE STORM WITHIN

Fighting the Storm Within / Gloria Ndilula

Depression / Saara Kadhikwa

He cries in silence / Mercy George

Heart of Stone / Lazarus Shatipamba

Raining without water / Dalene Gous

He / Christelize Eileen Meintjies

Hush / Esther Nantana

Concrete Cold / Sanmari Steenkamp

Disconnect / Sanmari Steenkamp

The cliff beneath your feet / Aquila Bartholomeus

Somewhere / Omaano Itana

NOT BY HEART BUT BY FISTS

The Beat of Samantha / Simson Mario Ochurub

Dear Perpetrator / Tulipomwene Kalunduka

My dear Maria / Aristides `Are' Sambiliye

Drug Addict / Alex Swartbooi

Violence / Kina Indongo

Who's More Violent? / Marco Kalunduka

SHADOWS OF THE UNKNOWN

Darkness / Tuli Phoenix

Death, be my friend / Bronwen A. Beukes

What a perfect day to die / Christelize Elleen Meintjies

This isn't a poem / Omaano Itana

Escape from civilized life / Andre du Pisani

Dear Little Soul within My Soul / Clementine Tjameya

Tribute to a survivor / Martha Sibila Khoeses

The pursuit of happiness / Steffen List

NOT BY CHOICE

Let me be / Saara Kalumbu

I am Naked / Edwin Jackson Tjazerua

Racial Hatred, Breeds Hatred / Ijama Tjivikua

Side by side / Meraai

Book of Hunger: Chapter One / Kuhepa Tjondu

The Other Side of Independence Avenue / Munukayumbwa (Mimi) Mwiya

Sentient white bones / Coletta Kandimiri

It Never Happened / Veripuami Nandeekua Kangumine

Pushed / Edwin Jackson Tjazerua

Freequential / Steffen List

Falling in Love / Hannah H. Tarindwa

Love / Richard Jaar

Together Forever / Wilhelmina Lumbu Kalapungame Iimene

An Ode To Ex's Next Ex / Mupalo Mazala

Valour / Mupalo Mazala

What I Can Do / Nathaniel Shashi Rufinus

Wish I had known / Charles Mlambo

Where the ocean meets the desert / Jacobina Kalunduka

These vessels / Julia N. T. Nekomba

DUST OF GLORY

Forgotten Royalty / Zemha Gawachas

Birth right / Sylvia Schlettwein

My heritage / Remaliah Margarida Chingufo

Ode to Negritude / Nelson Mlambo

Perm Blues / Maria-Oo Haihambo

We Africans / Kuhepa Tjondu

Wild Africa / Lize-Mari de Bod

I am Africa / Davency Mbaha.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9789991642574

9991642579

OCLC:

1178632989

Publisher Number:

99986101090