The young poet is moved by his innate disposition towards emotions, and because the poet is a member of the society, their writings – whether personal or public – are necessitated by the fact of his membership hence the politics, hence the role of nationhood in their education.
The young poet is moved by his innate disposition towards emotions, and because the poet is a member of the society, their writings – whether personal or public – are necessitated by the fact of his membership hence the politics, hence the role of nationhood in their education.
Against Heaven only troubles the idea of faith when it requires obedience to oppression and estrangement from the self. It pushed me, and hopefully the reader, to consider what liberation – and faith in one’s liberation – actually feels like in the body.
The mood-scape I mean to craft pans around a supramundane staging ground, destabilized and teetering in the ever presence of harm. I intended to resist and repel every instinct and effort of my reader to locate a thread or string that coheres and resolves, that eases, that moves toward conclusion or remedy or harmony.
One of the things that stories do is enhance our interconnectedness and help us understand the world better and try to remove that hermetically sealed mind space. Thinking about it, it’s quite possible to go through life believing that everything around you don’t exist and you create everything that is there because you live in your head. How do you then know that other people exist and feel what you feel? One way to see a different perspective of life other than yours is by communication, storytelling – Martin Egblewogbe
That we generally don’t spend hours petting domestic or farm animals or praising daffodils is only one measure of “distance.” However, when you turn to language, to the months or seasons for example, suddenly the attentiveness to nature is quite apparent. Don’t get me started on people’s names, ploughing practices or proverbs and idioms that rely entirely on an intimate understanding of and entanglement with nature. – Tjawangwa Dema
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