{"product_id":"nomenclatures-of-invisibility-mahtem-shiferraw-9781950774906","title":"Nomenclatures of Invisibility","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eNomenclatures of Invisibility\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eNomenclatures of Invisibility\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 too: our backs bending at once, \/ our arms breaking, our abdomens \/ kicked into silence, thighs bleeding. Through \/ this I ask; am I still lit? And they, again \/...what else would you be-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mahtem Shiferraw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950774902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950774906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BOA Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d","brand":"Mahtem Shiferraw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069209735423,"sku":"9781950774906","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e681796-b7bd-4843-93d0-1971b0c69a49.jpg?v=1685423433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nomenclatures-of-invisibility-mahtem-shiferraw-9781950774906","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}