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How to Cure a Ghost : Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Róisín, Fariha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslim women--Poetry.
- Muslim women.
- Intersectionality (Sociology)--Poetry.
- Intersectionality (Sociology).
- Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Self-acceptance--Poetry.
- Self-acceptance.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abrams, Inc., 2019.
- Summary:
- A poetry compilation recounting a woman's journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness. Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín's poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities. Fariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer based in Brooklyn. Her writing often explores Muslim identity, race, pop culture, and film. It also examines the intersection of queerness and being a femme of color while navigating a white world.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- After the Loss
- Self-Portraiture
- After the Loss, Take 2
- You Feel Me Right, You Feel Me?
- Reminder for Self
- Plastic Bags inside another Plastic Bag to carry said Plastic Bags
- Ammu, After the Smoke
- Mansplain Nation
- Two of Swords
- Bad Men Keep Bad Men Keep Bad Men Cool
- Je ne suis pas folle
- Utopia
- How to Cure a Ghost
- On Being Alone
- Loss Becomes Her
- Responsibility is not a Burden
- Mothers
- State of Exhaustion
- On Being an Immigrant
- Time Means Everything
- How to Cure a Ghost II
- Bodily Solecism
- My Island Home
- What have you got to Lose? Me: Everything
- Rumi
- Cointelpro
- Call Me Felicity
- The Many Descriptions of Being Brown
- The Night of the Cactus
- You Come to Understand a Place only After You Leave It
- Under the Golden Hour
- Haruomi Hosono
- Sporting a New Look
- Unlearning
- All The Things we're Actually Thinking when Men Think we're Staring
- I Really Really Care, don't You?
- It's All Love
- We Go On, Sisters, We Go On
- This One's with Teeth
- 1971
- The Women who have seen
- Sadness is a Vacuum
- My Heart is a Novella
- What 9/11 did to us
- To Drone or not to Drone
- To The Aunties
- Allahu Akbar
- Who's Right?
- I'm Two Halves of the Moon, I'm still Evolving
- Neu Land
- Golden Lube
- Before Partition
- Anthurium
- On Watching the House Burn Down
- There's Nothing Original About Judas
- Belonging
- This One's for me
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-68335-680-2
- 9781683356806
- OCLC:
- 1121044130
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