Broken halves of a milky sun Poems
Book - 2022
"With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a powerful poetry debut exploring the effects of racism, war and colonialism, queer love and desire. In their breathtaking international debut, Aaiún Nin plumbs the depths of the lived and enduring effects of colonialism in their native country, Angola. In these pages, Nin untangles complexities of exile, the reckoning of familial love, but also reveals the power of queer love and desire through the body that yearns to love and be loved. Nin shows the ways in which faith and devotion serve as forms of oppression and interrogates the nature of home by reclaiming the persistent echoes of trauma. A captivating blend of evocative prose and ...intimate testimony, Nin speaks to the universal vulnerability of existence." --
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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New York :
Astra House
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 74 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781662600791
- Black Skin in the Forsaken Outback
- A Door Left Ajar
- God Gave Man the Word
- Luanda Smells of Heat
- You Learn from Women
- We are the Bodies Who Fled
- Fleeing War Is
- Activist Spaces Littered With ...
- Mourning is Movement.
- My Mother's Face Set Inwards
- Have You Forgotten? We Were in a Room
- The Sound of It Is "Waweh"
- A Crucified Man Condemned Us All.
- Shaking Hands
- Tell Me of the First Time You Were Poisoned.
- Language must be Adequate.
- We Consume the Body during Sex
- Life Will Hit You, But You Already Know That
- If Youth Is Wasted on the Young
- I Am Thinking of Killing Myself
- There Are Two Bodies with No Heads
- Your Room Is Cold and Dark
- I Write to Slow the Passing of Time
- Find Some Real Chilies
- We are the Broken Halves of a Milky Sun
- If We Happen to Meet on this Road
- I Want to Love the People Whom I Love
- Do Not Touch My Hair.
- Don't You Ever Feel Grateful
- Souls Wandering Around Chained to a System
- Acknowledgments