Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on your shirt.WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONFINALIST FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR POETRYExceptional Mehri is a truly transnational poet of the twentyfirst centuryBERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, OtherA once in a generation poetCALEB FEMI, author of PoorThe definition of diaspora is the dispersion of people from their original homeland. But what does it mean to write diaspora poetry? Momtaza Mehris debut collection poses this question, taking us from Mogadishu to Naples, Lampedusa to London. Mixing her own familys experience with the stories of many others across nineteenth and twentiethcentury Somalia, Bad Diaspora Poems confronts the ambivalent nature of speaking for those who have been left behind.We meet the poet, the translator, the refugee, the exile, and the diaspora kid attempting to transcend their clichd angst. Told in lyric, prose and text messages, and taking place in living rooms and marketplaces, on buses and balconies, on transatlantic journeys and online, these are essential poems about our diasporic age.

Binding: Paperback;112 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: DC; Weight: 244 g; Dimensions: 196 x 136 x 13

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