![]() Crushing God Turns Pressure Into Power. The wildly imperfect women of slick braids, shiny skin and succulent lips, building new homes from clouds for future legions.Everything Is F*cked-A Book About Hope R285.00 Add to basket.‘Puts Black women where we know we belong, not at the margins of other people’s art … but at the helm of our own creative practice’ – Bernardine Evaristo Related products ![]() ![]() ‘Puts Black women where we know we belong, not at the margins of other people’s art … but at the helm of our own creative practice’ – Bernardine Evaristo Questioning and disrupting patriarchy, these poems speak about birth and death, fertility and infertility, rape and genital mutilation, war, exile and forced migration, but also revel in joy, desire, and the expression of sexuality and the erotic.īut what is a wild imperfection? And can the language of these poets recreate a space for the ‘wild’ and ‘unruly’, the ‘loose’ and ‘dirty’, the ‘witches’ and ‘bitches’ who are perfect in their brokenness and who are no longer seeking permission for their rage, their joy and their healing? Wild Imperfections opens with poems honouring different generations of ancestor women, like Sarah Baartman and Rosa Parks – born at different times yet all of them cultural and political mirrors to Black girls and women. ![]() Whatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn – particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world. ![]()
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