Elhillo, Safia
Girls That Never Die: Poems
- ISBN 13:
- 9780593229484
- author:
- Elhillo, Safia
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Random House Inc
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 128
- Dimensions:
- 21 x 13.9 centimetres (0.57 kg)
- Genre:
- Poetry, American, African American,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Incredibly moving poems that explore feminine shame and violence, Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to imagine liberation from these threats. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power. Elhillo writes a new world where women escape their stonings by birds that carry the rocks away, and slain girls grow into two, like the hydra of lore. Circles of women are deemed holy, protected. This is a book about wrestling ourselves from the threats of violence that constrain our lives, and instead looking to freedom and questioning: what if I will not die? What will govern me then?
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