
- 108 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Fuchsia
About this book
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw's Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disassembled, and nomadic self. Embedded in her poems are colors, elements, and sensations that evoke painful memories related to deep-seated remnants of trauma, war, and diaspora. Yet rooted in these losses and dangers also lie opportunities for mending and reflecting, evoking a distinct sense of hope. Elegant and traditional, the poems in Fuchsia examine what it means to both recall the past and continue onward with a richer understanding.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Kwame Dawes
- Acknowledgments
- Fuchsia
- Origins & Intersections
- E is for Eden
- How to Peel Cactus Fruit
- Something Sleeps in the Mud Beds of the Nile
- Twenty Questions for Your Mother
- While Weeping (Broadway & 5th)
- The Monster
- Talks about Race
- Sleeping with Hyenas
- She says they come at night . . .
- Water
- Polka Dot Dreams
- Blood Disparities
- Synesthesia
- Listro (Shoe-Shiner)
- Pilgrimage to the Nile
- Dinner with Uncles
- In the Lion’s Den
- Daisies & Death
- Something Familiar and Freezing
- A Dead Man’s List
- Dialectics of Death
- Being a Woman
- Rumors
- Visitor
- Broken Men
- Song of the Dead
- Awakening
- Statues
- Kalashnikovs
- The Language of Hair
- Small Tragedies
- 4 AM
- Dear Abahagoy—
- Efervescence
- Ode to Tings Torn
- Plot Line
- A Secret Lull