earthstepper/ the ocean is very shallow

<p>i have one eye full of dreams & hintentions</p><p> the other is full of broken mirrors</p><p> & cracked churchbells</p><p>i have one eye full of rivers & welcomes </p><p>the other is full of flickers & fades</p><p>i have</p><p>a memory full of paths & anointings</p><p>a mouth full of ripe infant suns</p><p>seven legs for the dancing river & the clement abyss</p><p>& a hope that corrodes the convulsions</p><p>we bless the long rough road </p><p>we bless the inscrutable darkness</p><p>where our names are rent into spirit </p><p>we bless the splinters & the air full of asphyxiations & amnesia</p><p>we bless our lacerations & our deformities</p><p> </p><p>This book is a redesigned second printing of Seitlhamo Motsapi's acclaimed earthstepper first published in 1996. Reviewing earthstepper in New Coin Laura Chrisman wrote:</p><p>A very far cry from official New South African pietistic discourse of reconciliation this collection brilliantly fuses pan-Africanist militancy romantic spirituality and scathing attack on neo-colonialism in its global and local forms. The political urgency is never compromised by empty rhetorical posturing or aesthetic banality: this is a rich experimental poetry raining down fresh imagery complex conceits carefully patterned to produce a volume of striking originality and stylistic rigour.</p><p></p>