Girls that never die : poems /
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 new...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
One World,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Final weeks, 1990
- Orpheus
- Profanity
- How to say
- Yasmeen
- Taxonomy
- Infibulation study
- Pomegranate
- Pomegranate with partial nude
- Infibulation study
- Isha, New York City
- Memoir
- On Eid we slaughter lambs & I know intimately the color
- A rumor
- Modern Sudanese poetry
- Girls that never die
- Bad girl
- Self-portrait without stitches
- The animal
- Pastoral
- The Cairo apartments
- Zamalek
- Geneva
- Tony Soprano's tender machismo
- Summer
- Taxonomy
- Syros
- Terra Nullius
- Sudan, TX
- Taxonomy
- Border/softer
- Ode to my homegirls
- Girls that never die
- Elegy
- 1,000
- Summer triangle
- Palimpsest
- Harder/border
- Ode to gossips
- Girls that never die
- For my friends, in reply to a question
- Red note with a line by Ol' Dirty Bastard
- Girls that never die.