The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3 (eBook)

Halal If You Hear Me

Fatimah Asghar, Safia Elhillo (Herausgeber)

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2019
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-60846-606-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities.Halal If You Hear Me features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Warsan Shire, Tarfia Faizullah, Angel Nafis, Beyza Ozer, and many others.Fatimah Asghar is the creator of the Emmy-Nominated web series Brown Girls, now in development for HBO. She is the author of If They Come For Us and a recipient of a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman fellow. In 2017, she was listed on Forbes s 30 Under 30 list.Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC and a Cave Canem fellow, she holds an MFA from the New School. In 2018, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: BreakBeat Poets
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: American poetry • best poem • breakbeat poetry • breatbeat poet • Contemporary poetry • Muslim poem • Muslim poet • queer Islam • queer Muslim • queer poetry
• ISBN-10: 1-60846-606-X / 160846606X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-606-1 / 9781608466061