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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

Monet, Aja

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1608467678
ISBN13: 9781608467679
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: May 30 2017
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

I am 27 and have never killed a man
but I know the face of death as if heirloom
my country memorizes murder as lullaby
--from For Fahd

Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is aja monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters, the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.

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