Research Catalog

Title

Girls that never die : poems / Safia Elhillo.

Author

Elhillo, Safia

Publication

New York : One World, [2022]

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Details

Description

xi, 125 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"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 violences enacted and imagined against women's bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor 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 stonings 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]"--

Subject

• Women > Poetry
• Girls > Poetry
• Women > Violence against > Poetry
• Muslim women > Poetry
• Women
• Gender identity
• Girls
• Children
• Women > Violence against
• Muslim women

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

Final weeks, 1990 -- Orpheus -- Profanity -- How to say -- Yasmeen -- Taxonomy -- Infibulation study -- Pomegranate -- Pomegranate with partial nude -- Infibulation study -- Isha, New York City -- Memoir -- On Eid we slaughter lambs & I know intimately the color -- A rumor -- Modern Sudanese poetry -- Girls that never die -- Bad girl -- Self-portrait without stitches -- The animal -- Pastoral -- The Cairo apartments -- Zamalek -- Geneva -- Tony Soprano's tender machismo -- Summer -- Taxonomy -- Syros -- Terra Nullius -- Sudan, TX -- Taxonomy -- Border/softer -- Ode to my homegirls -- Girls that never die -- Elegy -- 1,000 -- Summer triangle -- Palimpsest -- Harder/border -- Ode to gossips -- Girls that never die -- For my friends, in reply to a question -- Red note with a line by Ol' Dirty Bastard -- Girls that never die.

Call Number

Sc D 22-959

ISBN

• 9780593229484
• 0593229487

LCCN

2021056603

OCLC

1285552908

Author

Elhillo, Safia, author.

Title

Girls that never die : poems / Safia Elhillo.

Publisher

New York : One World, [2022]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-959