Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January ChildrenEndlessly compelling . . . a book that gives us courage, despite all the despairing records of history.--Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women's bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power. Elhillo writes a new world: women escape their stonings by birds that carry the rocks away; slain girls grow into two, like the hydra of lore, sprouting too numerous to ever be eradicated; circles of women are deemed holy, protected. Ultimately, Girls That Never Die is about wrestling ourselves from the threats of violence that constrain our lives, and instead looking to freedom and questioning: what if i will not die] what will govern me then]
Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children, a poetry collection that won the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award. She holds an MFA from The New School, a Cave Canem Fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Safia has been nominated for a Pushcart Award and was a co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She was also named to Forbes Africa's 2018 30 Under 30 list. She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2019 to 2021.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593229484 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593229487 |
| Title | Girls That Never Die |
| Author | Safia Elhillo |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2022-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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