My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Contributor(s): Monet, Aja (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608467678 ISBN-13: 9781608467679 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
Dewey: 811.6 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 168 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters--the tiny gods who fight to change the world. 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, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Monet, Aja: - Aja Monet is a Caribbean-American poet, performer, and educator from Brooklyn. She has been awarded the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City YWCA's "One to Watch Award." She is the author of The Black Unicorn Sings and the co-editor, with Saul Williams, of Chorus: A Literary Mixtape. She lives in Little Haiti, Miami, where she is a co-founder of Smoke Signals Studio and dedicates her time merging arts and culture in community organizing with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project. |