Wild Imperfections
A Womanist Anthology of Poems
Natalia Molebatsi (Redaktør) ; Staceyann Chin (Innledning) ; Nikki Giovanni (Innledning)
Who are the Women of Xolebeni?
Who was Dulcie September?
What are dirty/pretty things?
Or vulva volcanoes?
Whatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn - particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world. Les mer
Who was Dulcie September?
What are dirty/pretty things?
Or vulva volcanoes?
Whatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn - particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world. Les mer
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Who are the Women of Xolebeni?
Who was Dulcie September?
What are dirty/pretty things?
Or vulva volcanoes?
Whatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn - particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world.
Wild Imperfections opens with poems honouring different generations of ancestor women, like Sarah Baartman and Rosa Parks - born at different times yet all of them cultural and political mirrors to Black girls and women.
Questioning and disrupting patriarchy, these poems speak about birth and death, fertility and infertility, rape and genital mutilation, war, exile and forced migration, but also revel in joy, desire, and the expression of sexuality and the erotic.
But what is a wild imperfection? And can the language of these poets recreate a space for the 'wild' and 'unruly', the 'loose' and 'dirty', the 'witches' and 'bitches' who are perfect in their brokenness and who are no longer seeking permission for their rage, their joy and their healing?
Who was Dulcie September?
What are dirty/pretty things?
Or vulva volcanoes?
Whatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn - particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world.
Wild Imperfections opens with poems honouring different generations of ancestor women, like Sarah Baartman and Rosa Parks - born at different times yet all of them cultural and political mirrors to Black girls and women.
Questioning and disrupting patriarchy, these poems speak about birth and death, fertility and infertility, rape and genital mutilation, war, exile and forced migration, but also revel in joy, desire, and the expression of sexuality and the erotic.
But what is a wild imperfection? And can the language of these poets recreate a space for the 'wild' and 'unruly', the 'loose' and 'dirty', the 'witches' and 'bitches' who are perfect in their brokenness and who are no longer seeking permission for their rage, their joy and their healing?
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Utgitt:
2022
Forlag: Cassava Republic Press
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
ISBN: 9781913175252
Format: 22 x 22 cm
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Natalia Molebatsi is an internationally known South African writer, poet, and singer. In addition to being a performance poet
and author, she experiments with jazz and hip hop. She has published Sardo Dance and edited We Are: A Poetry Anthology, and
her work has been anthologised in a number of books. Natalia has performed poetry and facilitated creative writing workshops
at high schools, universities and festivals in Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Zimbabwe, England, Italy, Azerbaijan, Argentina, Palestine,
Germany and the USA, among other countries.