Yes, being the one who survived,the one who made it to this side, is a full-time job.But no one asked you to take itDiaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on your shirt.Tender, searing, satirical and political, Bad Diaspora Poems is a dazzling and much-awaited debut collection from a remarkable and singular poetic voice.The definition of diaspora is the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. But what does it mean to write diaspora poetry? Momtaza Mehri's exhilarating debut collection probes this question, spanning the waves of immigration to and from Somalia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, taking us from Mogadishu to Naples, from Lampedusa to London. We arrive at the present day, where these inherited histories and silences endure across generations.Mixing her own family history with the history and stories of many others, Bad Diaspora Poems confronts the ambivalent nature of speaking for those who have been left behind. We meet the poet, the immigrant, the exile, the refugee, the runaway, the working class artist, the translator, and the diaspora kid attempting to transcend their cliched angst. Taking the form of lyric, prose, erasures and text messages and taking place in living rooms and marketplaces, on buses and balconies, on transatlantic journeys and online, these are essential poems about our diasporic age.
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- Authors:
- Mehri, Momtaza
- Year Published:
- 2023
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781787334373
- Publication Date:
- 06/07/2023
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Number of Pages:
- 128
- SKU:
- 9781787334373