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 academiaThis is an angry love letter, to a place left behind yet always there, continuing to matter and hurt and shape the poet's identity."e;But no one was interested in eliciting my testimony;after all I wasn't dead - I wasn't ill - and hadn't thiscountry 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 -"e;
| ISBN: | 9781915628060 |
| Publication date: | 6th October 2022 |
| Author: | Rizwan, Rakhshan |
| Publisher: | The Emma Press |
| Format: | Ebook |
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 academiaThis is an angry love letter, to a place left behind yet always there, continuing to matter and hurt and shape the poet's identity."e;But no one was interested in eliciting my testimony;after all I wasn't dead - I wasn't ill - and hadn't thiscountry 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 -"e;
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Europe, Love Me Back was written by Rizwan, Rakhshan and published by The Emma Press
£3.54. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..