Wild Imperfections
An Anthology of Womanist Poems
Natalia Molebatsi, Natalia Molebatsi
- 224 pages
- English
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Wild Imperfections
An Anthology of Womanist Poems
Natalia Molebatsi, Natalia Molebatsi
About This Book
Featuring the work of Black women poets from Botswana to Brazil, in this collection, we encounter ancestors who made love, just for the sake of love, and women who die with each orgasm while attempting to mark the extent of their own humanities.
This is for the nuns, the singers, the clowns, the diviners and the conjurers who reject the constant attempt to clean up history. The wildly imperfect women of slick braids, shiny skin and succulent lips, building new homes from clouds for future legions.
Here congregate the women, womxn and womyn who do not believe in tough love that disguises hurt just to prove a point. They dance with the dead with exquisite feet, cheekbones high, reflecting their mothers' smiles.
Because no one claps for martyrs, these dirty/pretty women learn to walk cities like they own them, choosing the battles of their hearts.
If this collection teaches anything, it is that love is always messy, that our sacrament requires wet wipes and that we are just flesh and bone honing practice.
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CONTENTS
- Title Page
- Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo
- Editorâs Note by Natalia Molebatsi
- Diana Ferrus (South Africa)
- Iâve Come to Take You Home
- My Mother Was a Storm
- This Song of Freedom
- Nikki Giovanni (usa)
- The Seamstress of Montgomery
- A Prayer for Nina
- Miriam Alves (Brazil)
- Womanly (Feminil)
- Subtleties (Sutilezas)
- I Go Far (Vou Longe)
- Makhosazana Xaba (South Africa)
- Women of Xolobeni
- For Dulcie September
- Sister to Sister
- Cheryl L Clarke (usa)
- History
- On Their Way to Life
- Brief Interval
- Jackie Kay (Scotland)
- Fanny Eaton â The Jamaican Pre-Raphaelite Muse!
- A Banquet for The Boys
- Bonnie Lassie
- Gcina Mhlophe (South Africa)
- Camagu Mama Sisulu
- The Ancient Voices
- Anni Domingo (Sierra Leone)
- Empty Crad...