Meet: Dr Danai Mupotsa
Danai Mupotsa was born in Harare, and
has lived in Botswana, the United States
and South Africa where she is now based.
She describes herself as a teacher and
writer. feeling and ugly, was largely written
between 2016 and 2018, although some
of the poems were written earlier or
previously published in some form.
The collection gathers the various
statuses and locations she moves across,
as daughter, mother, teacher, scholar and
writer. From these places, many of the
poems try to approach difficult feelings
about what it means to “do politics” from
an empathetic complexity. “I’m raging,
sometimes that makes me petty” is one
such example. The collection carries a
set of standpoints, or wilfulness about
pedagogy, politics and optimism. And
while she carries an attachment to a
non-reparative, or negative affect across
the collection,
she closes in
describing the
work, or all of
her work as love
poems. This
collection is a
long love letter
to those who
are wilful.
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Source: @CSofPoetry
