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A Hundred Silences by Gabeba Baderoon

A Hundred Silences by Gabeba Baderoon

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In this eloquent and tender collection of poems, an exciting new voice in South African writing explores the unique silences, memories and secrets found in every room. From the quiet, gnawing loneliness of hotel rooms ('Sleeping in hotels’) to the ache and longing created by absence (‘love is in the going away’), these poems consider all silences, including those found between words, and how anger can spark ‘the taste of blood never too far . . . eyes watchful/heavy as bruises’. A Hundred Silences is the third collection of poetry by Baderoon – recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry in 2005.
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Pratham Patel
Excellent read

Gabeba's poems take you on a journey through the pages of a life filled with attention and a deep comprehension of the neglected. Her attention to the commonplace, to what may have occurred, to what did happen in quiet, to what returns to us, she captures all of this, expelled like a deep breath, clear and distinct, presented in beautiful language.

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