Download or read book ‘mamaseko written by Thabile Makue and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named after the poet’s mother, ‘mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. Thabile Makue questions what it means to be beings of blood—to relate by blood, to live by blood. In her poems Makue looks for traces of shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.