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I am 27 and have never killed a man but I know the face of death as if heirloom my country memorizes murder as lullaby --from ""For Fahd"" Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters--the tiny gods who fight to change the world. These stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.

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""A triumphant collection."" -- ""O Magazine"" ""She gives voices to the marginalized and forgotten and imagines worlds in which those voices can ring out."" -- ""Los Angeles Review of Books"" ""Stunning and evocative...fierce and revolutionary."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)""

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aja monet is a Caribbean-American poet, performer, and educator from Brooklyn. She has been awarded the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City YWCA's ""One to Watch Award."" She is the author of The Black Unicorn Sings and the coeditor, with Saul Williams, of Chorus: A Literary Mixtape. She lives in Little Haiti, Miami, where she is a cofounder of Smoke Signals Studio and dedicates her time merging arts and culture in community organizing with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project. aja monet is a Caribbean-American poet, performer, and educator from Brooklyn. She has been awarded the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City YWCA's ""One to Watch Award."" She is the author of The Black Unicorn Sings and the coeditor, with Saul Williams, of Chorus: A Literary Mixtape. She lives in Little Haiti, Miami, where she is a cofounder of Smoke Signals Studio and dedicates her time merging arts and culture in community organizing with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project.

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