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Girls That Never Die : Poems

✍ Scribed by Safia Elhillo

Book ID
112175877
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2022
Tongue
en-US
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780593229484

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✦ Synopsis

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of _The January Children
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" Endlessly compelling . . . a book that gives us courage, despite all the despairing records of history."--Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic
In Girls That Never Die , award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women's bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power.
Elhillo writes a new world: women escape their stonings by birds...

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