These hands - Makhosazana Xaba - Bog

This edition is a re-release of Xaba's first poetry collection (first publised in 2005) due to demand from readers and academics. A powerful, ground breaking work that placed Xaba firmly as an important voice the SA literary scene.
Words

Whenever I take the pulse

of my existence,

feel the pinch

of my persistence

against the grinding grain

of my resistance

to the pounding punch

of their insistence,

words transmit to me

a drumroll of deliverance.