How to Cure a Ghost

Informationen zum Autor Fariha Röisi¿n is an Australian-Canadian writer based in Brooklyn. Her writing often explores Muslim identity, race, pop culture, and film. It also examines the intersection of queerness and being a femme of color while navigating a white world. Klappentext Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I , the author's poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Zusammenfassung A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I , Fariha Ro´isi´n’s poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Ro´isi´n and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.

Product details

• Authors: Monica Ramos, Fariha Roisin, Fariha Róisín
• Assisted by: Monica Ramos (Illustration)
• Publisher: Abrams
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781419737565
• ISBN: 978-1-4197-3756-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 178 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Modern and contemporary poetry / poems