Status
Available
Genres
Publication
Haymarket Books (2017), 168 pages
Description
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters--the tiny gods who fight to change the world. 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, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.
Awards
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nominee — Poetry — 2018)
Original language
English
Physical description
168 p.; 5.5 inches
ISBN
1608467678 / 9781608467679
Local notes
poetry
Other editions
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet (Paperback)
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