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"I studied in Botswana and in the classroom it was the reading of stories that drew me to language, not poetry specifically".

— Tjawangwa Dema

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"This process of refining is everything is the goal is to write a good (read necessary, urgent) poem".

"I remember seeing the sky as it scrunched its face, filling its cheeks with smoke hurling rage at every mans' door".

"Here is a line between mana and man
and nature
man-made
as all false boundaries are".

"My clay begins elesewhere where Okavango pours into Boteti & re appears here to watch this other water from a distance".

"When my chapbook, Mandible, got published I don't believe I thought about curation very much".

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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