{"product_id":"9781485904076","title":"Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho are the Women of Xolobeni?\u003cbr\u003eWho was Dulcie September?\u003cbr\u003eWhat are dirty\/pretty things?\u003cbr\u003eOr vulva volcanoes?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhatever its theme, each poem in this collection featuring the work of 40 black women poets from Africa and its diaspora reflects the lives of most, if not all women, womyn and womxn – particularly those born Black and poor by design in a post-slavery, post-colonial world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWild Imperfections opens with poems honouring different generations of ancestor women, like Sarah Baartman and Rosa Parks – born at different times yet all of them cultural and political mirrors to Black girls and women.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eQuestioning and disrupting patriarchy, these poems speak about birth and death, fertility and infertility, rape and genital mutilation, war, exile and forced migration, but also revel in joy, desire, and the expression of sexuality and the erotic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut what is a wild imperfection? And can the language of these poets recreate a space for the ‘wild’ and ‘unruly’, the ‘loose’ and ‘dirty’, the ‘witches’ and ‘bitches’ who are perfect in their brokenness and who are no longer seeking permission for their rage, their joy and their healing?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e‘Puts Black women where we know we belong, not at the margins of other people’s art … but at the helm of our own creative practice’ – Bernardine Evaristo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Natalia+Molebatsi\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eNatalia Molebatsi\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Natalia Molebatsi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379258933411,"sku":"9781485904076","price":260.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781485904076_96761737-2df8-497d-b800-338a7552541f.jpg?v=1776553068","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781485904076","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}