Soul Psalms: Poems [Paperback]

Soul Psalms, a collection of poems from Zimbabwean American poet U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, is filled with lyrical and vivid imagery that takes you on a emotional journey toward finding self. Exploring themes of family, love, body image, acceptance, and belonging, Mhlaba-Adebo’s words flow melodically and powerfully, bringing readers to a place of peace. The themes inSoul Psalmsmay be personal, but they appeal to a universal pull: the desire to become.U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, whose Ndebele/Zulu name means “What are we waiting for?” is a Boston-based Zimbabwean American Performance Artist and Poet. She has a Master’s in education from Lesley University and more than fifteen years of experience teaching health and wellness in schools and communities, and is presently an Adjunct Professor in English at Endicott College. Her poems have been used in film, TV, theater, and documentaries, and published inWrite On The Dot. She is happily married and has a son.“U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo is a wonderful poet who writes with a passionate ferocity, a strident generosity of spirit. She writes movingly of family, of childhood in her native Zimbabwe, the hurts and injuries of love; she confronts head-on the power and complexity of women’s sexuality, and urges resistance to the ever-present possibility of personal oppression. Her Soul Psalms are, indeed, psalms—also songs, poems, chants, passionate incantations in a fearless female voice—a voice at once strident, sometimes angry, but always passionate and tempered with optimism and the healing possibilities of love.”
—David Updike, author ofOld Girlfriends
“Raw and powerful, deep yet concise, full of aching, sexy love and cutting pain. These poems are the very essence of life—an essence you can practically taste as you read U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo’s work. She is a poet who writes with, and embodies, proud beauty.”
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