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Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems
Contributor(s): Diaka, Ama Asantewa (Author)
ISBN: 0063092913     ISBN-13: 9780063092914
Publisher: Ecco Press
OUR PRICE:   $23.39  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2022
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | African
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places
Dewey: 821.23
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.50 lbs) 96 pages
 
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A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures

Renowned 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 Whole is 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 body--and a mind--so often restless or ill at ease.

Vivid and bodily while also deeply cerebral, Woman, Eat Me Whole is a searing debut collection from a poet with an inimitable voice and vision.