Reddit reviews Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen―Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition
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Try these for some info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C7%80Xam_language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6WO5XabD-s
The amazon gives a very brief overview that the introduction of Song of the Broken String explains in greater detail, heres the amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Song-Broken-String-Bushmen-Poems-Tradition/dp/1878818430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501005356&sr=8-1&keywords=song+of+the+broken+string
Here is Watson's poem, Song of the Broken String, so you can get a feel for his repetition. The "/" is a line break.
Because/of a people,/because of others,/other people/who came/breaking/the string for me,/the earth/is not earth,/this place is/a place now/changed for me.
Because/the string is that which/has broken for me,/this earth/is no longer/the earth to me,/this place/seems no longer/a place to me.
Because/the string is broken,/the country feels/as if it lay/empty before me,/our country seems/as if it lay/both empty before me,/and dead before me.
This link tells a bit about Watson and the project too, for the reprinting of a poem in a book with art.
http://library.si.edu/exhibition/artists-books-and-africa/sound-thinking-strings-full
Watson died in 2011.