Wild imperfections : an anthology of womanist poems
2021
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Who are the Women of Xolebeni? Who was Dulcie September? What are dirty/pretty things? Or vulva volcanoes? Whatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn - particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world. 'Wild Imperfections' opens with poems honouring different generations of ancestor women, like Sarah Baartman and Rosa Parks - born at different times yet all of them cultural and political mirrors to Black girls and women. Questioning and disrupting patriarchy, these poems speak about birth and death, fertility and infertility, rape and genital mutilation, war, exile and forced migration, but also revel in joy, desire, and the expression of sexuality and the erotic.
Main title:
Wild imperfections : an anthology of womanist poems / compiled and edited by Natalia Molebatsi ; foreword by Bernadine Evaristo.
Author:
Molebatsi, Natalia, editor
Imprint:
Abuja : Cassava Republic Press, 2021.
Collation:
xxiv, 192 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781913175252 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
821.008092
Language:
English
BRN:
1906102
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