Recensori in anteprimaMahtem Shiferraw

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Aprile 2023 Pacchetto

Omaggio terminato: 25 aprile alle 06:00 pm EDT

Through a personal, historical, and political lens, Mahtem Shiferraw attends to the collective experiences inherited through deeply-rooted ancestry, tracing patterns of movement and migration, sorrow and invisibility, and the resulting complicated notions of home.

In Nomenclatures of Invisibility, Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body, language, and land. With momentum, giving name to everything in her path from the longing that comes with migration to her beloved eucalyptus tree, she blurs physical and temporal borders, paying homage to ancestors past, present, and future. Shiferraw writes unapologetically against erasure, against invisibility, instead creating a space that holds grief lovingly, that can tend to the wounds held and held in the endlessly-traveling body. Brilliant with abundance and texture, Shiferraw’s poems dismantle the empire's sterile use of language, both historical and present.

In Nomenclatures of Invisibility, Mahtem Shiferraw builds a home within her poems, attentively naming those who exist within them out of invisibility and into the radiant light: “We walk / in unison too: our backs bending at once, / our arms breaking, our abdomens / kicked into silence, thighs bleeding. Through / this I ask; am I still lit? And they, again /…what else would you be—”

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Cartaceo
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Poetry
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BOA Editions, Ltd. (Editore)
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July 2020 Pacchetto

Omaggio terminato: 27 luglio alle ore 06:00 pm EDT

Maaza Mengiste (A cura di), Hannah Giorgis (Contribution by, Contribution by, Contribution by), Lelissa Girma (Contribution by), Meron Hadero (Contribution by), Solomon Hailemariam (Contribution by), Adam Reta (Contribution by), Bewketu Seyoum (Contribution by), Mahtem Shiferraw (Contribution by), Teferi Nigussie Tafa (Contribution by), Linda Yohannes (Contribution by), Sulaiman Addonia (Contribution by), Mikael Awake (Contribution by), Girma T. Fantaye (Contribution by), Rebecca Fisseha (Contribution by)
Award-winning novelist Mengiste artfully ushers the City of Humans, Ethiopia’s bustling capital, into the Noir Series arena. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Addis Ababa (simply “Addis” to locals), considered by some to be the original home of humankind, is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony—until they don’t. Maaza Mengiste’s award-winning fiction and nonfiction have consistently reflected the lives of Ethiopia’s everyday people, against the backdrop of migration, war, and exile. Here, in this masterfully edited collection showcasing the country’s finest literary talent, Mengiste brings this same razor-sharp sensibility to her city of birth, pulling back the curtain on despair and depravity, offering an intimate glimpse into the raw, beating heart of Addis Ababa. Brand-new stories by: Maaza Mengiste, Adam Reta, Mahtem Shiferraw, Linda Yohannes, Sulaiman Addonia, Meron Hadero, Mikael Awake, Lelissa Girma, Rebecca Fisseha, Solomon Hailemariam, Girma Fantaye, Teferi Nigussie Tafa, Hannah Giorgis, and Bewketu Seyoum.
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Generi
Mystery, Fiction and Literature
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Akashic Books (Editore)
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