THESE HANDS, 2005/17
Makhosazana Xaba
This edition is a re-release of Xaba’s first poetry collection (first published in 2005) due to demand from readers and academics. A powerful, ground breaking work that placed Xaba firmly as an important voice in the SA literary scene.
REVIEWS
“Finally, and essentially, back in print, Makhosazana Xaba’s debut collection contains powerful societal critique alongside moving meditations on love and intimacy. Writing in incisive, unadorned language, Xaba confronts racism and misogyny to devastating effect. She then turns her hand to the intimacies that exist between women, within family, and between the poet and her own writing.”
“These poems do not flinch while recalling histories of trauma and documenting a willful desire for freedom and intimacy. Through this collection, Xaba illuminates the cost of body politics.”
“These poems do not flinch while recalling histories of trauma and documenting a willful desire for freedom and intimacy. Through this collection, Xaba illuminates the cost of body politics.”
“One of those landmark poetry collections that’s lodged in our heads and hearts.”
Modjaji Books
MEDIA
Reviewing: Revisiting Makhosazana Xaba’s These Hands - Poems
Review by Clare Wylille: These Hands
Review by Leloba Molema: These Hands