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-Adebos 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.A beautiful, powerful and lyrical collection of poetry that explores themes of identity, family, love, marriage, body image, and self-acceptance through the lens of a cross-cultural experience. There are more than 1.6 million Africans living in the US today. 44% of Americans say they are searching for love and acceptance 37% of Americans are multiracial/culturalU-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 womens sexuality, and urges resistance to the ever-present possibility of personal oppression. Her Soul Psalms are, indeed, psalmsalso songs, poems, chants, passionate incantations in a fearless female voicea 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 lifean essence you can practically taste as you read U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebos work. She is a poet who writes with, and embodies, proud beauty.
—Rivka Solomon, writer, playwright, and founder/director of That Takes Ovaries
U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebos poetic word is a powerful exclamation of raw and tender emotions that we often conceal. Thus, it is a futuristic returnl£