mystical traditions for spiritual healing
than parade in front of suitors
who’s a famous singer in Japan last she heard
it’s more intense and visible than ever
Roxane Gay
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Format:Paperback mystical traditions for spiritual healingMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.