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Tjawangwa Dema
20 quotes
“I studied in Botswana and in the classroom it was the reading of stories that drew me to language, not poetry specifically".”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not ask me what I good poem is, I only know one when I see or smell it, hear it coming, or sense it scrambling off the stage or page".”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Art of Alteration with TJ Dema 25 February 2019
“This process of refining is everything is the goal is to write a good (read necessary, urgent) poem".”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Art of Alteration with TJ Dema 25 February 2019
“When my chapbook, Mandible, got published I don't believe I thought about curation very much".”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: So You Wanna Win a Book Prize" w/ Tjawangwa Dema March 3, 2020
“My sister works well at the daily chore of keeping everyone alive”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Naomi by Tjawangwa Dema March 5, 2019
“I remember seeing the sky as it scrunched its face, filling its cheeks with smoke hurling rage at every mans' door".”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TJ DEMA- BREAD FOR THE BIRDS Accessed in July 19, 2022
“Here is a line between mana and man / and nature / man-made / as all false boundaries are".”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tjawangwa Dema, What are the Boundaries Between Humans and Nature Accessed in July 19, 2022
“One of the things I was afraid I would miss out on with a digital residency was the very local and human voice but thankfully through technology we can approximate some of what a conversation in person accomplishes".”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Complicating Fragments or You Are Here' - A poem by QuayWords Summer Digital writer-in-residnece, Tjawangwa Dema Accessed in July 19, 2022
“My clay begins elesewhere where Okavango pours into Boteti & re appears here to watch this other water from a distance".”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Complicating Fragments or You Are Here by TJ Dema Accessed in July 19, 2022
“The world is not in a slow moment... So many people are practicing how to be faster and we all want our books out yesterday and so many things are demanding speed of us or we are demanding it of ourselves, but learning new approaches requires slowness.”
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“May I never be a slave to speed... I am making choices all the time about which scuffles I am willing to find myself in... Still, if like me you are more nuanced, you will instead say, let’s interrogate, let’s ask three more questions before we settle on fire.”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I suppose writing is revising and editing and hoping you know just when to stop. It's always serious work for me, it just happens to be work whose reward is worth staying with the trouble for.”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poem as a form is a construct, its architecture is intentional and therefore its language is unnatural or not naturally occurring. It can take a whole poem to convey what could otherwise be a look between two people or the poem might successfully convey in a line what could never be spoken out loud over a lifetime.”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you write you are engaged in a process of discovery, you are trying to work out what it is you think, feel, or know about a subject.”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm a communal creature but some of that community has to do with being silent and observing. Language and imagination suit me because I like people but like my space too.”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Home is anywhere – I insist on that possibility even as I recognise that officials have the power to put you on a plane and ship you to a country you haven't ever been to... Home has not been one place for me for a long time...”
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“I am interested in what moves us, what makes us human, and how we negotiate the spaces we occupy—physically, emotionally, and politically.”
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“Nothing is less faithful. Less real. Or more untrue than a dream... I will not spin and spin inside this skin. I will not mourn a future I never had... Choose to be the dream I am in right now. Maybe then it won't be so hard. Just to breathe right now.”
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“Who amongst us knows whether our mothers truly favour silence, or whether the price of asking a man where he has been is far greater than the shame of knowing?”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“May he never know that a crossing does not mean better, safer... I make a bridge of blood and bone, of sinew and lung, for him.”
Tjawangwa Dema (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source