Full Description
Your Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw's poems explore what the woman's body has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the aftermath of abuse.
A groundbreaking collection, the poems in Your Body Is War embody elements of conflict, making them simultaneously a place of destruction and of freedom.
Contents
Swallowing Suns
Your Body Is War (I)
Madhouse
The Art of Invisibility
The Suicide Chamber
The Tree of My Deaths
Behind Walls and Glass
Your Body Is War (II)
Ash and Blue
Body of Punishments
Like a Lover's Quarrel
Water
The Curse of Ishmael
Black and Blue
Death by Trains
The Memory of the Body
Your Body Is War (III)
Genesis
The Old Tree
The Wrong Kind of Dream
Your Body Is War (IV)
Journey with Dante
At the Mad Man's
Water Dreams
The Body Book
Conversations with Self
The Yellow Woman
The Fruit Mother
Ghost Procession
Your Body Is War (V)
Acknowledgments
