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Revolutionary Poetry
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- ISBN 9781608467679
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2017
- Publisher: Haymarket Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. 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, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.
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 Cafe Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City YWCA's "One to Watch Award." She is the author ofThe Black Unicorn Singsand the co-editor, with Saul Williams, ofChorus: A Literary Mixtape. A co-founder of Smoke Signals Studio, she lives in Los Angeles and dedicates her time merging arts and culture in community organizing with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project. monet's debut poetry album When The Poems Do What They Do was nominated for a Grammy in 2023.
