Europe, Love Me Back by Rakhshan Rizwan
Europe, Love Me Back is a collection of relentlessly questing, sharply satirical poems about the continent, and the poets fraught relationship with it.
‘A striking debut collection which evokes the rich culture and history of Rizwan’s native LahoreThemes of belonging, migration and displacement abound, as Rizwan examines the split linguistic self of the migrant. Combining free verse and complex ghazals, this is a powerful exploration of the role of women in Pakistan and beyond.’ - Poetry Book Society
Rakhshan Rizwan works as an Acquisitions Editor. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University. Her poetry pamphlet, Paisley (The Emma Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Saboteur Award and the Michael Marks Poetry Prize. Her collection of children’s poetry, My Sneezes are Perfect (The Emma Press, 2021) documents the difficulties of moving countries, and living through a pandemic from the perspective of a young child. Her book Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights, Pleasure, and the Local Cosmopolitan (Routledge, 2020) looks at how Kashmiri authors use innovative languages of happiness to do human rights advocacy. Her writing has appeared in Aaduna, Nimrod, Postcolonial Text and Blue Lyra Review, among others. She is on the editorial team of the children’s poetry journal Tyger Tyger Magazine. She is from Lahore, Pakistan, has lived in Germany and the Netherlands, and currently lives in the Bay Area of North California, US.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912915149 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912915146 |
| Title | Europe, Love Me Back |
| Author | Rakhshan Rizwan |
| Series | Poetry Collections |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Emma Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 84 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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