Speaking in code

Phodiso Modirwa

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
New York, New York : Akashic Books 2023.
Language
English
Corporate Author
African Poetry Book Fund
Main Author
Phodiso Modirwa (author)
Corporate Author
African Poetry Book Fund (-)
Other Authors
Tsitsi Jaji (writer of preface)
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.