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Europe, Love Me Back (Poetry Collections) - Softcover

Rakhshan Rizwan

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9781912915149: Europe, Love Me Back (Poetry Collections)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1912915146 ISBN 13: 9781912915149
Publisher: The Emma Press, 2022

Synopsis

Europe, Love Me Back is a collection of relentlessly questing, sharply satirical poems about the continent, and the poet''s fraught relationship with it. Hurting yet clear-eyed, Rizwan explores and exposes what it means to be a small brown woman in Dutch suburbs, hospitals and academia

This is an angry love letter, to a place left behind yet always there, continuing to matter and hurt and shape the poet''s identity.

"But no one was interested in eliciting my testimony;
after all I wasn’t dead – I wasn’t ill – and hadn’t this
country treated me so well?

For it is not a human right to be much more than Agamben’s bare life,
to exist in the hallowed halls of the academe,
because there comes a point when our wanting
is simply too much, obscene –"

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Publisher
The Emma Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1912915146
ISBN 13 
9781912915149
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
88
Rating
  • 4.14 out of 5 stars
    22 ratings by Goodreads