First edition published June 2010; cover design; layout and design by New Voices; Printing by MegaDigital, Cape Town.

About the Book:

“I need an education
Don’t tell me it’s for sale in ale
Don’t have no money, honey
See you not the hunger in my face, it may turn anger
See you not the ire in my eyes, it may turn fire
Uncontrollable chaotic fire that’ll burn, burn, burn
An empty enterprise, petty surprise, irate surmise
The wealth, health that makes you arrogant
The affluence and influence that makes you ignorant
I’ll kill you, you see: let me learn”
--I Need an Education

“If only your world and mine could meet
And blaze tributary crossings of waters cool and sweet
And flowing streams demanding the dexterity of swim
And flow like a river and compose song with nature”
--Me and You

“Rest gently Nhamuave
On the lovely ancestral grounds of Vuca
And not be roused from slumber by the wailing pangs of pain
The grave must know you are no mere dust”
--Ernesto

When the Moon Goes to Rest is a collection of poetry, quiet and loud—an attempt at capturing the pains and gains of living.

About the Author:

Moses Nzama Khaizen Mtileni, born 18 June 1983, hails from Nkuri-Tomu village in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. In the years 2004 and 2005, he was Features Editor and later Chief Editor of Wits Student, a student newspaper at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he completed his Bachelor of Science in Town and Regional Planning. He is a featured poet in Kookamonga Square, and his poetry has appeared in Sowetan Young Writers Column, and in anthologies Voyages and New Pegasus (published in India by cyberwit.net). His collection of Xitsonga poetry, U ya va rungula, was published in May 2010 by New Voices. His poetry has been described as a rhythmic juxtaposition of the personal and the political, at times ‘seething and explosive’, at others ‘quieter and reflective’.

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