Wild Imperfections - An Anthology Of Womanist Poems (Paperback)

Who are the Women of Xolobeni? 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?

General

Imprint:	Penguin Random House Group
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	August 2021
Editors:	Natalia Molebatsi
Dimensions:	210 x 135 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-4859-0407-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Local Author Showcase > Lifestyle
LSN:	1-4859-0407-2
Barcode:	9781485904076

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