Wild Imperfections

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An unabashedly feminist and womanist anthology honouring Black women across generations and memories.

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Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 336 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 22.3 × 2.5 cm
Author

Publisher

Cassava Republic Press

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

xxiv, 192

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.00809287 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K