Your Body Is War

Mahtem Shiferraw (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

90 Seiten

2019
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-1413-3 (ISBN)

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Contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw's poems explore what the woman's body has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the aftermath of abuse.

Your Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw’s poems explore what the woman’s body has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the aftermath of abuse.

A groundbreaking collection, the poems in Your Body Is War embody elements of conflict, making them simultaneously a place of destruction and of freedom.

Mahtem Shiferraw is a poet and visual artist from Ethiopia and Eritrea and now divides her time between Los Angeles and Addis Ababa. She is the author of the poetry collection Fuchsia (Nebraska, 2016) and the chapbook Behind Walls and Glass.

Swallowing Suns
Your Body Is War (I)
Madhouse
The Art of Invisibility
The Suicide Chamber
The Tree of My Deaths
Behind Walls and Glass
Your Body Is War (II)
Ash and Blue
Body of Punishments
Like a Lover's Quarrel
Water
The Curse of Ishmael
Black and Blue
Death by Trains
The Memory of the Body
Your Body Is War (III)
Genesis
The Old Tree
The Wrong Kind of Dream
Your Body Is War (IV)
Journey with Dante
At the Mad Man's
Water Dreams
The Body Book
Conversations with Self
The Yellow Woman
The Fruit Mother
Ghost Procession
Your Body Is War (V)
Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	African Poetry Book
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-1413-7 / 1496214137
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-1413-3 / 9781496214133
Zustand	Neuware