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Dambudzo Marechera wrote The House of Hunger , in 1978, inspiring a generation of Zimbabweans. (Photograph by Ernst Schade via Humboldt University, courtesy of The Conversation)
My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is at assembly at an out-of-the-way rural boarding school. I was twelve. At this point I don’t know his story or reputations. His gender is fluid. For a while he stayed a woman in my imagination. He is not a man. Androgynous. – Tinashe Mushakavanhu
My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is in a country to the north of South Africa. I am 30. Marechera has just died. At this point, everything I hear from comrades about his books and his personality makes me conclude I am never going to read him.
Ae Hee Lee is the author of two poetry chapbooks:
Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017) and
Dear bear, (Platypus Press, 2021). She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at the New England Review, Narrative, Denver Quarterly, Southeast Review, and POETRY among others. She has also received scholarships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and the Glen Workshop.
INTRODUCTION
It took me a while to realize reading and writing were just another way of listening and engaging in conversation with people (myself included!), ideas, and sounds. However, one of the things I love about paper is its boundless patience. It respects that every reader and writer has their own pace (some run, others wade). Therefore, if I were to offer some advice to my younger self, I would tell her i