Speaking in code
Book - 2023
"Phodiso Modirwa is a writer and poet from Botswana. Her poetry and nonfiction have been published in 20.35 Africa, The weight of years: an Afro anthology of creative nonfiction, PRAXIS magazine, Jalada 08: Bodies, Kalahari review, Ake review, the Rising phoenix review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Botswana President's Award for Contemporary Poetry and recently completed a residency at the Gaborone Club's Art Residency Centre."--Cover.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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New York, New York :
Akashic Books
2023.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First printing
- Item Description
- "Cover art: Portrait 3 by Victor Ekpuk. Cover design: Petrovich/Habibion."--Cover.
- Physical Description
- 28 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781636141329
9781636140766 - Place of Publication
- United States -- New York -- New York.
- Preface / Tsitsi Jaji ; my father is not
- filling an application form for my national id
- red sea
- wasting away
- travelers
- speaking in code
- exorcist
- call it what it is
- inference-after safia elhillo's vocabulary
- shape shifting
- lot's account
- my sister asks me to keep the lights on
- my sister writes from the hospital she calls prison
- monologue in which my sister is afraid to come home
- after the psychiatric ward; botsetsi
- mis / carriage
- inherited pursuits / Phodiso Modirwa ; Acknowledgments.