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Nomenclatures of Invisibility (American Poets Continuum Series, 200) by Mahtem Shiferraw is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Nomenclatures of Invisibility (American Poets Continuum Series, 200) about?
Through a personal, historical, and political lens, Mahtem Shiferraw attends to the collective experiences inherited through deeply-rooted ancestry, tracing patterns of movement and migration, sorrow and invisibility, and the resulting complicated notions of home. In Nomenclatures of Invisibility , Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body, language, and land. With momentum, giving name to everything in her path from the longing that comes with migration to her beloved eucalyptus tree, she blurs physical and temporal borders, paying homage to ancestors past, present, and future. Shiferraw writes unapologetically against erasure, against invisibility, instead creating a space that holds grief lovingly, that can tend to the wounds held and held in the endlessly-traveling body. Brilliant with abundance and texture, Shiferraw’s poems dismantle the empire's sterile use of language, both historical and present. In Nomenclatures of Invisibility , Mahtem Shiferraw builds a home within her poems, attentively naming those who exist within them out of invisibility and into the radiant light: “We walk / in unison
Who reads Nomenclatures of Invisibility (American Poets Continuum Series, 200)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mahtem Shiferraw
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Limited
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781950774906
- Category
- nonfiction