Cradles: New and Collected Poems by Salimah Valiani (English) Paperback Book

Description: Cradles by Salimah Valiani Cradles is a wayfaring reckoning with womb and land(s) before coasting tides and wind. Inspired by the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa - one of the earliest known homes of humans dating 2 million years - this collection combines new poems with selections from Valianis: breathing for breadth, Letter Out: Letter In and land of the sky. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Cradles is a collection on the nature(s) and nurturing that cradle us. Womb, the first section, is the first cradle, both nature and nurture, under-acknowledged and often unmentioned. Beyond the grand and intricate physical womb of individuals, there are collective wombs that incubate on yet grander and greater scales. In Land(s), the second section, the cradles we typically identify as our origins. But as the Cradle of Humankind in present day South Africa teaches, the many lands of today are interlaced in concealed ways and originated in a single, little understood place. Tides are explored in the third section: the physical migrations and cycles of time that shape us. Tides can shift, upset and remake the nurturing of cradles; they also cradle us in cycles of wreckage. Wind, the final section, sets us free of places and times of origin. This detachment can bring freedom, a sense of loss/lostness, and the many things in between. The freedom/loss/lostness spiral whirls with the wind and transforms. in surrendering we can alter its pace to our needs and desires. Author Biography SALIMAH VALIANI is a poet, activist, and researcher. She has published four collections of poetry: breathing for breadth (TSAR: 2005), Letter Out: Letter In (Inanna: 2009), land of the sky (Inanna: 2016) and Cradles (Daraja: 2017). Her story-poem, Dear South Africa, was one of seven pieces selected for Praxis Magazines 2019-2020 Online Chapbook Series. She has also published a research monograph, Rethinking Unequal Exchange - The Global Integration of Nursing Labour Markets (University of Toronto Press, 2012), and is authors editor of The Future of Mining in South Africa: Sunset or Sunrise? (Mapungubwe Institute, 2018). Review Rare is that poet who can be sensible--even scientific--about the newsprint and banner-headline facts of liberation forestalled and revolution redacted, saints assassinated and lesser strivers bought-off and corrupted. Rare are those poets who can analyze political science when it is unmasked as police suppression or economics that is all about cons and comics. --George Elliott Clarke,7th Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-17)This collection, powerful in the linkages it draws between birth and sweeping change, will have you thinking about beginnings and foundations - and where you come from. -- Frank Meintjies is a Johannesburg based poet, author of My Rainbow and Unfettered Days, and co-editor of Voices of Transition.Cradles is a must read for everyone for whom words are an important facet of life. --Lindiwe Nkutha, Director of Joburg Rising; author of Rock and other short stories. Details ISBN0995347492 Author Salimah Valiani Pages 152 Publisher Daraja Press Language English ISBN-10 0995347492 ISBN-13 9780995347496 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Daraja Press Country of Publication Canada Subtitle New and Collected Poems UK Release Date 2017-10-20 Audience General Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-03-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:117347159;

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