charlie
Feature Date
- December 18, 2019
Series
- Editor's Choice
Selected By
- Vivek Narayanan
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Copyright © 2019 by Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta
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Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta, born 1967, is a full time painter, sculptor, poet, and art teacher, who lives in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. His work has been widely exhibited in South Africa and overseas. Sapeta taught art for six years at Port Elizabeth College, and now runs art classes in local schools. In 2016, he completed an MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University.
Skeptical Erections is a book of startling visual and verbal imagination. In his poems Sapeta describes the deception and self-loathing prevalent in the people he encounters in his world, including (or perhaps especially) himself. Despite their distortions, however, the characters who come alive in these poems are depicted with respect and compassion.
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