Sunflowers For My Lovers, by Zizipho Bam

Sunflowers. Bags. Splinters. The Body. The Bed. Old memories and spaces. The poems of Zizipho Bam deal with tactile things and physical objects that connect to self and the self's multiplicity of selves. In this book, Zizipho as the poet and the visual storyteller convene to create a world where poetry and art can forge a path for healing one's self. She writes about love, loss, longing and belonging and offers these sunflowers to all the version s of herself at each intersection as a means to reimagining self.