{"product_id":"girls-that-never-die-poems-9780593229484","title":"Girls That Never Die: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe January Children \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Incredibly moving . . . Every single poem is stellar.\"--Roxane Gay, author of \u003ci\u003eDifficult Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGirls That Never Die\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women's bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElhillo writes a new world: women escape their stonings by birds that carry the rocks away; slain girls grow into two, like the hydra of lore, sprouting too numerous to ever be eradicated; circles of women are deemed holy, protected. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eGirls That Never Die \u003c\/i\u003eis about wrestling ourselves from the threats of violence that constrain our lives, and instead looking to freedom and questioning: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e[what if i will not die]\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e[what will govern me then]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSudanese by way of D.C., \u003cb\u003eSafia Elhillo \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe January Children \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHome Is Not a Country \u003c\/i\u003eand co-editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eHalal If You Hear Me\u003c\/i\u003e. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, she is also the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Cave Canem Fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePOETRY Magazine, The Atlantic, \u003c\/i\u003eand The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, among others, and has been translated into several languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605718438162,"sku":"9780593229484","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e7c66cf1-c1ee-4210-9706-ec054fc75f96.jpg?v=1732281994","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/girls-that-never-die-poems-9780593229484","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}