{"product_id":"9781776392087","title":"Weeping Becomes A River","description":"\u003cp\u003eSiphokazi Jonas  is a weaver of seemingly discordant worlds; growing up in an Afrikaans dorpie, attending an English boarding school, and going on annual holidays to a village emaXhoseni during the transition years of South Africa's democracy made this a necessity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  Weeping Becomes a River  she confronts the linguistic and cultural alienation experienced as a black learner in former Model C schools in the 1990s and early 2000s, then fashions the fragments to reclaim and rewrite her place within a lineage of storytellers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMigrating between forms, between poetry and intsomi, she navigates the waters of tradition, religion, intergenerational experiences of rural and urban spaces, and the ways in which family dynamics affect the body. She is not only a referee of the raging tensions within her, but she also pieces together a language for pathways of leaving and returning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer poems grapple with the past, the present, and possible futures without forgetting that “the body is marked territory from birth, and the scent of it never leaves”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Siphokazi+Jonas\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSiphokazi Jonas\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Siphokazi Jonas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381731803299,"sku":"9781776392087","price":230.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781776392087_b305f6e2-98b1-4379-b0f8-33ae22f60ac1.jpg?v=1776584763","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781776392087","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}