Shadows of the Heart : Poems of Love, Life, Loss, Struggles and Innocence

Langue : anglais

Edité par Jaydin Donough, 2025

0639891608 / 9780639891606

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Shadows of the Heart: Poems of Love, Life, Loss, Struggles, and Innocence, Jaydin Donough known as The Silent Writer delivers a searing poetic portrait of life in Cape Town's townships.This isn't just a collection.It's a survival story.It's the silence of children, the loudness of trauma, the heartbeat of coloured communities often erased or overlooked. It is South Africa raw, tender, broken, but still breathing.The revised and expanded edition of Shadows of the Heart is deeper, more Capetonian, more rooted in lived realities. It speaks from the dust of street corners, the hush of school corridors, and the heartbreak inside homes where violence walks in uninvited. Jaydin's words cut through every layer of silence left behind by apartheid, post-apartheid betrayal, poverty, corruption, and generational trauma.'In my community, a dream dies every second / and another gets buried beneath the floorboards of fear.'These poems speak of girls who carry pain in their hips and boys who cry in silence, learning early that tears are dangerous currency. They hold space for families stitched together by grief, for mothers who've buried more than just children, and for youth taught to navigate a world that doesn't expect them to survive.Jaydin does not shy away from naming the wounds:Apartheid and its unburied legacyCorruption and broken systemsGender-based violence and rape cultureGangsterism and generational painLove in the marginsBoys raised in silence, girls raised in scarsThese are excerpts.from testimonies of the youth on the Cape Flats.'I was taught to pray before I was taught to speak / but I stopped praying the day the pastor touched my cousin.''We were children playing war games / until the real war found us.'Yet despite the pain, there's beauty. There's still laughter in the cracks. There's still hope woven through the verses. And above all, there is love-imperfect, resilient, holy in its defiance.'We don't say 'I love you' here / We cook for you / We walk you home / We don't let you die alone.''Even broken things can bloom / if you plant them in truth.'Jaydin Donough writes for the ones who never had books written about them. For the girls who were told to stay quiet. For the boys who were told to toughen up. For the streets that raised them. For the ancestors that watch over them. And for the future that still belongs to them.Shadows of the Heart is poetry for the people.If you've ever grown up in survival mode.If you've ever wanted to scream but whispered instead.If you've ever loved and lost and still believed.This book is for you.These aren't just poems.They're home.They're memory.They're resistance.They're truth.…

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Titre
Shadows of the Heart : Poems of Love, Life, Loss, Struggles and Innocence
Auteur
Jaydin C Donough
Éditeur
Jaydin Donough
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
Neu
Reliure
Taschenbuch
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0639891608
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780639891606
Poids de l'article
348 grammes
Dimensions
280x216x7 mm

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