Aja Monet

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

I am 27 and have never killed a man
but I know the face of death as if heirloom
my country memorizes murder as lullaby
-from "For Fahd

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, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters-the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.

Praise for Aja Monet:

""[Monet] is the true definition of an artist.
-Harry Belafonte

""In Paris, she walked out onto the stage, opened her mouth and spoke. At the first utterance I heard that rare something that said this is special and knew immediately that Aja Monet was one of the Ones who will mark the sound of the ages. She brings depth of voice to the voiceless, and through her we sing a powerful song.
-Carrie Mae Weems

Of Cuban-Jamaican descent, Aja Monet is an internationally established poet, performer, singer, songwriter, educator, and human rights advocate. Monet is also the youngest person to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam title.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608467686
• Artikelnr.: 47255677

Autorenporträt

aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, musician, and cultural worker whose poems sing to us of love, gender, justice, and spirituality. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her writing sways between realms where the poetic is both a prayer and a call to action. Her debut poetry collection, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, a tribute to women and girls in the pursuit of freedom, earned a 2018 NAACP Image Award nomination for Poetry. In 2023, she released When the Poems Do What They Do, a debut album of jazz and blues poetry, and performed live on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert. In 2024, she earned a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album, a testament to her voice, both on the page and in the world. As Artistic Creative Director for the Voices Campaign with V-Day, monet is part of the global movement to end violence against women and girls. monet is a recipient of the EBONY Power 100 Artist in Residence Award, Tribeca Film Festival's Harry Belafonte Social Justice Award, and the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award. Her new collection of poetry, Florida Water, will be released June 2025.