Reveries of longing / / Melissa Kiguwa ; Olga Lolo, cover artist

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811719703321
• Autore: Kiguwa Melissa
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johannesburg, South Africa : , : African Perspectives Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-9922285-8-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (100 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.8100967
• Soggetti: African poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Author's Note; At a Womyn's Meeting in Phoenix; Hometown Checkpoints; Reflections in the City: I; Planting Season; The Brooklyn Village Womyn; Lonely to Destitute; Dating 101; Insurgent Love-Making; Wanderlust; Brimstone in the Promised Land; Church Politics; Reflections in the City: II; Butch Queens at a Funeral; Raise the Sun; Nobody Talks; As if the Gods were Playing; A Poet's Prayer; Afro-Wanderings; On Distance; Sense; M; I Speak a Holy Ghost; Reflections in the City: III; Forced Penetration; If I were to Blow up the Embassy; 3:43 a.m.; To Trayvon and Oscar and Emmitt and Him and Him and HimReflections in the City: IV; Lust; Take Over; How to Love a Revolutionary; Praise; Yoga PTSD; Un-Broken; Acknowledgements; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Melissa Kiguwa is a blues writer, performer, a social critic, television and radio personality in South Africa. Raised by a Haitian father and a Ugandan mother, Melissa considers herself an Afro-diasporic nomad. Migration, imperialism, gender, spirituality, sexuality and capitalism influences much of her work. Her writings have been published in various magazine and media platforms.