cento – Tichaona Chinyelu

April 2, 2016

Bookshelf Cento (NaPoMo #2)

Sisters mine, beloveds those bones are not my child. I am a woman at point zero; unburnable. The wind done gone into a dark alliance forged from the devil’s pulpit. Daughters of the Sun, Women of the Moon a mercy, please. Let’s make dust tracks and leave the dilemma of this ghost to those who…

Genealogy of a Colony: Introduction

On my book blog, I have written about how absolutely fascinated I am by the Great Dismal Swamp. I have started but not yet finished Daniel A. Sayers’ A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp; started but not yet finished Charles Royster’s The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George…

Faces and Masks Cento

I don’t normally incorporate poetic forms in my work but having come across the form of the cento, I thought that sounds interesting. I flipped through several books to pick the words that would form the basis of the piece. The lyricism of Eduardo Galeono’s trilogy Memory of Fire fired my imagination the most for…