This House
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This House

Poems

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This House

Poems

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About This Book

Rehema Njambi unpacks identity, faith, womanhood and – above all – agency, in poems partly inspired by conversations with the Black, mostly African, women around her. Imbued with quiet resistance to patriarchal societies, Njambi's debut collection is an ode to the women who have raised her, and their strength and their ability to hold, sustain, and be rooted in their faith. The poems resound with their idea of home, and belonging they wish to pass on to their daughters.

GHOSTS IN THIS HOUSE

There were footsteps in the dark all night,
almost every night, and we were scared —
but we didn't say a thing.

She called us to prayer in the morning, every morning.
With our small hands and smaller faith

we asked the Lord for protection —
but He didn't say a thing.

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Publisher
The Emma Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781912915736
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Other Titles from the Emma Press
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. All These Truths You Never Set Free
  7. Found Wanting
  8. Confession
  9. Marriage Circa 1975
  10. A Piece of Land
  11. ‘Yet Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves’
  12. A Lending, Not a Giving
  13. In Holy Matrimony
  14. And I Am Angry Because
  15. Our Marriage Dies in a Dream
  16. Envy
  17. Ghosts In This House
  18. One Of Them
  19. We Do Not Mend Broken Things
  20. I Make Small Observances For You
  21. Ihoya
  22. Vigil for Loneliness
  23. Prayer on My Mother’s Tongue
  24. Call Me Mara
  25. The Language of Grief
  26. Notes
  27. About the Poet