{"product_id":"your-body-is-war-paperback-softback-9781496214133","title":"Your Body Is War (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496214133","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eYour Body Is War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMahtem Shiferraw (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496214133\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e90 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"As Shiferraw refuses silence, rejects erasure, she braids the pain of women she loves into her poetry. Indeed, the poet writes on a continuum, refusing boundaries. And in so doing, \u003ci\u003eYour Body Is War\u003c\/i\u003e gives the reader stunning poems that re-create the pain and triumph of women the world would rather unsee.\"-Mary Catherine Ford, \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Elegant and heart-wrenching, these poems possess a powerful voice that travels across oceans to reconnect with the language and stories of Ethiopia, Mahtem Shiferraw’s homeland. \u003ci\u003eYour Body Is War\u003c\/i\u003e speaks poignantly about the inherited historical traumas, the ache and beauty of memory, and the strength it takes to endure the wounds of a nation, of a family, of a conflicted self.”-Rigoberto GonzÁlez, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This is a collection of harrowing, prismatic lyrics made by severances and war and possessed by memory and place. In a language that dilates between the epic and the humble, nearly invisible, Mahtem Shiferraw does not once allow readers to imagine that war is anything but bodied, personal, inherited. Shiferraw’s work is elemental, brilliant, fierce; and with mystery and exactitude, she pushes language past itself and into breathtaking resonances. There are lines I will never forget for their power and for what they reveal about how this poet’s thinking shapes the terms of her and her speakers’ survival(s). ‘I am yellow, \/ I have yellow in me \/\/ and it does not \/ let me die.’ I believe these poems are part of that survival-a trace, a strategy, a prayer record assembled in the ruin of Then that is perpetual, that is also always Now.”-Aracelis Girmay, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Maria\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eYour Body Is War\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A groundbreaking collection, the poems in \u003ci\u003eYour Body Is War\u003c\/i\u003e embody elements of conflict, making them simultaneously a place of destruction and of freedom.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744621064472,"sku":"9781496214133","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/your-body-is-war-paperback-softback-9781496214133","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}