Europe, Love Me Back

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 -"

Europe, Love Me Back features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets, Migration, immigration and emigration

Europe, Love Me Back is available in Paperback, Ebook

Europe, Love Me Back was written by Rakhshan Rizwan and published by The Emma Press

Yes it is part of Poetry Collections series

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