Wild Imperfections
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Wild Imperfections

An Anthology of Womanist Poems

Natalia Molebatsi, Natalia Molebatsi

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Wild Imperfections

An Anthology of Womanist Poems

Natalia Molebatsi, Natalia Molebatsi

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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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Publisher
CASSAVA REPUBLIC
Year
2021
ISBN
9781913175269
Topic
Literatur
Subtopic
Afrikanische Poesie

CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo
  3. Editor’s Note by Natalia Molebatsi
  4. Diana Ferrus (South Africa)
  5. I’ve Come to Take You Home
  6. My Mother Was a Storm
  7. This Song of Freedom
  8. Nikki Giovanni (usa)
  9. The Seamstress of Montgomery
  10. A Prayer for Nina
  11. Miriam Alves (Brazil)
  12. Womanly (Feminil)
  13. Subtleties (Sutilezas)
  14. I Go Far (Vou Longe)
  15. Makhosazana Xaba (South Africa)
  16. Women of Xolobeni
  17. For Dulcie September
  18. Sister to Sister
  19. Cheryl L Clarke (usa)
  20. History
  21. On Their Way to Life
  22. Brief Interval
  23. Jackie Kay (Scotland)
  24. Fanny Eaton – The Jamaican Pre-Raphaelite Muse!
  25. A Banquet for The Boys
  26. Bonnie Lassie
  27. Gcina Mhlophe (South Africa)
  28. Camagu Mama Sisulu
  29. The Ancient Voices
  30. Anni Domingo (Sierra Leone)
  31. Empty Crad...

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