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Bezig met laden... Nomenclatures of Invisibility (American Poets Continuum Series, 200) (editie 2023)door Mahtem Shiferraw (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkNomenclatures of Invisibility door Mahtem Shiferraw
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. It's always tough to review poetry, since it is as much about connecting emotionally as it is about determining how well it's written. Though my experience is much different from the authors, I found many things that resonated. I particularly liked the poem "Wuchalle", which talked about a historical event I was unfamiliar with, yet which spoke to the universality of "hail the conquering hero" imperialism. From the poem: "the arrogance of being able to ignore any preexisting communities, which I am inclined to call 'indigenous' but, that too, is a language of ownership." "War". "Crossing Borders." The collection is well-named, as it gives many voices to the invisible immigrants, survivors, refugees. Well done. I will return to this book, as there is much to think about. (Part of why I took so long to review.) Thank you for the advance copy. It will live in our diversity library with like-minded friends.Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Absolutely stunning. In this collection, Mahtem Shiferraw grapples with identity, place, and history in an absolutely raw way, pulling imagery from her life and the lives of others to create an intense emotional landscape. There is incredible sadness and beauty in these poems as Shiferraw considers what has been left behind by the forces that have shaped her life and her home, and tries to find a place among all the unstoppable forces that have shaped her world. As Shiferraw puts it in one of the last poems of the collection:
"I feel it running in my veins,as if it was light. How many shadows have to exist within me before I know which light to follow..." Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. This poetry collection was an ARC. The poet feels strongly the pull of her ancestry in Eritrea and Ethiopia, and writes well about the effects in living in the USA - sometimes invisibility, sometimes hostility, sometimes sadness. Perhaps unfairly, i wished for more variety in the poetic themes. Just an okay reading experience for me. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. I am honored to read a work that is raw in pain truth and culture. I am excited to give this to my Ethiopian classmate. There are things that are hard to forget. I felt it took me longer to read. I used to write and read poetry frequently when I was in high school. But since full adulthood has not been a big part of me. If you like deep poetry this is for you.
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Through a lens simultaneously historical and political, Mahtem Shiferraw attends to personal and collective experiences of migration, motherhood, and immigration's complicated notions of home. In Nomenclatures of Invisibility, Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body, language, and state. Through a decolonial poetics, giving name to everything in her path from the Italian colonization of Eritrea (and failure to colonize Ethiopia) to her beloved eucalyptus tree, she blurs physical and temporal borders, paying homage to ancestors past, present, and future. Shiferraw writes unapologetically against erasure, against invisibility, instead creating a space that holds grief lovingly, that can tend to the wounds held and held in the endlessly-traveling body. Brilliant with abundance and texture, Shiferraw's poems dismantle the empire's sterility of language, both historical and present. In Nomenclatures of Invisibility, Mahtem Shiferraw builds a home within her poems, attentively naming those who exist within them out of invisibility and into the radiant light: "We walk in unison too: our backs bending at once,/ our arms breaking, our abdomens kicked into silence, thighs bleeding. Through this I ask; am I still lit? And they, again...what else would you be--" Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Deelnemer aan LibraryThing Vroege RecensentenMahtem Shiferraw's boek Nomenclatures of Invisibility was beschikbaar via LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Actuele discussiesGeen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)895.134Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Chinese Chinese fiction Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties 960–1912LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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