![]() ![]() Questioning and disrupting patriarchy, these poems speak about birth and death, fertility and infertility, rape and genital mutilation, war, exile and forced migration, but also revel in joy, desire, and the expression of sexuality and the erotic. The wildly imperfect women of slick braids, shiny skin and succulent lips, building new homes from clouds for future legions. Puts Black women where we know we belong, not at the margins of other peoples art. ![]() ![]() Wild Imperfections opens with poems honouring different generations of ancestor women, like Sarah Baartman and Rosa Parks – born at different times yet all of them cultural and political mirrors to Black girls and women. Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the in-store launch of Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems edited by Natalia Molebatsi, in conversation with Roché Kester. Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems By Natalia Molebatsi (Editor). Whatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn – particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world. No new copies on our shelves but maybe in used, now or arriving soon. ![]()
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