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A review by half_book_and_co
If God Is a Virus by Seema Yasmin
4.0
"Ebola Cento
Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
Fling your red dress faster and faster, dancer,
And say: Sir, were I you, as I should be,
A very pestilence upon you fall!"
Seema Yasmin is a medical doctor and science journalist. Her debut poetry collection, too, engages deeply with the Ebola crisis of 2014-2016 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. But she also writes about other illnesses, and fundamentally about the racism, misogyny, queer-hatred within the medical field - all while employing such a variety of poetical means. A truly beautiful and harrowing collection.
Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
Fling your red dress faster and faster, dancer,
And say: Sir, were I you, as I should be,
A very pestilence upon you fall!"
Seema Yasmin is a medical doctor and science journalist. Her debut poetry collection, too, engages deeply with the Ebola crisis of 2014-2016 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. But she also writes about other illnesses, and fundamentally about the racism, misogyny, queer-hatred within the medical field - all while employing such a variety of poetical means. A truly beautiful and harrowing collection.