Europe, Love Me Back

Rakhshan Rizwan

• Editore: The Emma Press
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781915628060
• Argomento: Letteratura
• Categoria: Poesia

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.

"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 –"

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• More from the Emma Press
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Bite
• Adjunct
• A hundred years of gaze
• Half the Sin
• Medusa Ghosted
• Foundation in Rose Beige
• Flâneuse
• Mindfulness
• Letter
• She said
• My house is becoming like my country
• I have found in my breast
• Petrarch
• In Translation
• A Man is speaking Urdu on the train and everyone is turning to look at him
• Post-racial nation
• My mother texts me at 6 am
• 18th February, 1943
• Deflation
• If the space
• In the morning
• Fathers
• Bookcase
• Passport Skin
• Paris Proper
• Broken Up
• Third-World Teeth
• Dear Susanne
• Something New
• Caucasity
• Melting Pot/Salad Bowl
• Seville
• About the Poet
• About the Illustrator
• About the Emma Press