My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

by Aja Monet

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I am 27 and have never killed a man
but I know the face of death as if heirloom
my country memorizes murder as lullaby
--from "For Fahd"

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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Haymarket Books
ISBN:
9781608467679
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
168
Authors:
Aja Monet
Published Date:
2017-05-30
Language:
English
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About aja monet

The youngest poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Café's Grand Slam, aja monet holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Raised in Brooklyn's East New York to parents of Cuban and Jamaican descent, she published the chapbook The Black Unicorn Sings (2010) and the full-length debut My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter (Haymarket Books, 2017). The collection received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. monet co-founded Smoke Signals Studio, a Miami arts collective, and leads Voices: Poetry for the People. The 2023 album When the Poems Do What They Do earned a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.

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