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    Gumiguru

    By Togara Muzanenhamo

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    Gumiguru is the tenth month of the Shona calendar - a month of dryness and heat before the first rains fall and rejuvenate the land. Togara Muzanenhamo's second collection is a cycle of poems distilling the experiences of a decade into one calendar year, framed through the natural and agricultural landscapes of Zimbabwe. The book stands as both an elegy for the poet's father and a hymn to the veldt, the farms and villages, and the men and women whose lives are interwoven with the land and the changing seasons. This book, first published in 1993, collects Spark's essays on the Brontës, her selection of their letters and of Emily's poetry. Evident throughout are Spark's critical intelligence, dry wit, and refusal to sentimentalise - qualities that gave her own novels their particular appeal. At the same time, The Essence of the Brontës is Muriel Spark's tribute to the sisters whose talents placed them on a stage from where they could hypnotize their own generation and, even more, posterity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Poetry
    Release dateOct 1, 2014
    ISBN9781847774811
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    Togara Muzanenhamo

    Togara Muzanenhamo was born to Zimbabwean parents in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1975. He was brought up in Zimbabwe, and then went on to study in The Hague and Paris. His work has appeared in magazines in Europe, South Africa, the United States and Zimbabwe, and was included in Carcanet's anthology New Poetries in 2002. He lives with his partner and children in Harare.

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