Drawing Deep Breaths

Drawing Deep Breaths is a collection of poems written by Wandisile Accolade Motha.

In Drawing Deep Breaths,

Accolade Motha dives into the depths of his personal tragedy and fishes out provocative portraits of love, belonging, loss, solitude, seeking, and ultimately finding the very thing that has kept him alive through it all – hope.

Drawing Deep Breaths is an honest and inspiring exploration of hope in the monotony of life’s endless difficulties. It is a mourning, a remembering, and celebration of parents lost, and spirit guardians gained. It is as delicate as the language of his deaf mother’s fingers tips. It is “Thick-skinned but paper-hearted.” It is the guidance of a father’s hand teaching how to scrub burned pots, with the knowledge that his son will one day need to keep scrubbing at life until he “molds himself into his own image.”