Mubanga Kalimamukwento Announces A New Book, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies.
Zambian Award-Winning Author Mubanga Kalimamukwento has announced her forthcoming book, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies.
The 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner‘s new book, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies, is a multi-lingual, hybrid collection of essays and poems that encapsulates a kaleidoscope of emotions: at once self-excavation and epitaph, exhumation and burial song. These words are a conversation between the present and the past.
“…joy wilts, Dust to dust, the preacher calls it Ashes to ashes, as mwana tosses it mangles itself inside her nostrils now the aroma of starved earth, the brilliant white of a mother’s new coffinment waiting to receive it.”
Kalimamukwento deftly navigates the aftermath of devastating personal losses, particularly that of her mother. Through them, she invites readers to reflect on their own experiences of loss and the enduring impact of familial bonds.
About the Author
Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian poet; her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Tusculum Review, Contemporary Verse 2, and Passengers Journal and has been translated into Italian by Menelique. She won the 2021 Deborah Keenan Poetry Scholarship and the 2022 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize, selected by Carmen Giménez. Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies Shortlisted for the 2023 (Center for African American Poetry and Poetics) CAAPP Book Prize.
Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies comes out in April 2025 and is now available for preorder
