Girls That Never Die Poems

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 violence's enacted and imagined against women's bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honour 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 stoning's 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]

ISBN:	9780593229484
Publisher:	One World
Imprint:	One World
Published date:	12 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	811.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	128
Weight:	159g
Height:	210mm
Width:	139mm
Spine width:	15mm

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