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the_bee_writes's review against another edition
4.0
This isn't a poetry book that I can just put away after reading it. Mahtem Shifferaw's use of language is exotic, full of colour and full of life. But life in all its glory and gory.
She explores questions of identity, of experiences of trauma and how to heal from it. These are rich poems that are sometimes not easy to access but sometimes too easy to access and their pain is written on my heart.
It was hard for me at first to get into her use of language and I had to look up several places she refers too as well as several words she used I have never heard of. However, that made the reading experience for me even better. I could learn something!
These poems made my mind work like a thunderstorm to make sense of them but now after a couple of days of reading them, I think it would be better to just experience them and not ask too many questions. Just to enjoy the images conjured, the flow of the language and the feelings her words create in you.
I most certainly will come back to them time and time again.
If you are interested in poetry and like to read authors from other continents than Europe and America than this book is for you.
She explores questions of identity, of experiences of trauma and how to heal from it. These are rich poems that are sometimes not easy to access but sometimes too easy to access and their pain is written on my heart.
It was hard for me at first to get into her use of language and I had to look up several places she refers too as well as several words she used I have never heard of. However, that made the reading experience for me even better. I could learn something!
These poems made my mind work like a thunderstorm to make sense of them but now after a couple of days of reading them, I think it would be better to just experience them and not ask too many questions. Just to enjoy the images conjured, the flow of the language and the feelings her words create in you.
I most certainly will come back to them time and time again.
If you are interested in poetry and like to read authors from other continents than Europe and America than this book is for you.
theybedax's review against another edition
4.0
The imaginary and subject matters throughout this work will break your heart and invigor your spirit.
elise_lh's review against another edition
5.0
“I don't know how to fit, adjust myself within new boundaries- nomads like me, have no place as home, no way of belonging."
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