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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elhillo, Safia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : One World, [2022].
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.