Woman, Eat Me Whole

Ama Asantewa Diaka

Ecco 

Beschreibung

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between culturesRenowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external,Woman, Eat Me Wholeis an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countries ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the dislocation and fragmentation of a bodyand a mindso often restless or ill at ease.Vivid and bodily while also deeply cerebral,Woman, Eat Me Wholeis a searing debut collection from a poet with an inimitable voice and vision.

Kundenbewertungen