Wild Imperfections - A Womanist Anthology of Poems (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cassava Republic Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2022
Editors:	Natalia Molebatsi
Contributors:	Staceyann Chin • Nikki Giovanni
Dimensions:	216 x 215 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-913175-25-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-913175-25-1
Barcode:	9781913175252

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