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Belly to the Brutal sings a corrido of the love between mothers and daughters, confronting the learned complicity with patriarchal violence passed down from generation to generation.
This poetry edges into the borderlands, touching the realm of chora - humming, screaming, rhythm - transporting the words outside of patriarchal and racist constructs.
Drawing from curanderisma and a revived wave of feminist brujería, Jennifer Givhan creates a healing space for Brown women and mothers.
Each poem finds its own form, interweaving beauty and devastation to create a pathway out of the systems that have for too long oppressed women.
The poems dwell in the thick language of "motherfear," "where love grows too / in the shining center of the wound." This poetry of invocation moves toward a transformation of violence that is ultimately redemptive.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:02/08/2022
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- ISBN:9780819580962
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:02/08/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780819580962
