Home Is Not a Country

ISBN-13: 9780593177082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Safia Elhillo

Recenzje

Movingly unravels themes of belonging, Islamophobia, and the interlocking oppressions thrust upon immigrant women. Kirkus Reviews, starred review

[A] surreal crash-course in perspective, agency, and self-love. Booklist, starred review

Artfully profound and achingly beautiful, Elhillo s verse aptly explores diasporic yearning for one s home and a universal fascination with possibilities. Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Elhillo's tender and descriptive writing may leave readers feeling the need to live life to the fullest [a] passionate, piercing YA collection of poems." Shelf Awareness, starred review 

A love letter to anyone who has ever been an outsider, or searched to understand their history, no matter where they come from. NPR

"Richly imagined [...] An immersive experience of the intersectionality of gender, class, race, religion, and identity." The Horn Book

O autorze

Safia Elhillo is the author of the poetry collection The January Children, which received the the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award.

Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, she holds an MFA from The New School, a Cave Canem Fellowship, and a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Safia is a Pushcart Prize nominee, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and listed in Forbes Africa's 2018 "30 Under 30." She is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.