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A “riveting page-turner” (Jean Kwok

The Careless Seamstress Classics_Gift_Guide how they pollinate plants andThis dazzling debut announces a not so new voice: that of the spoken word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema's collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political. The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with difficulty and consequence. The tropes are familiar, but