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Download or read book Your Body Is War written by Mahtem Shiferraw and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw’s poems explore what the woman’s body has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the aftermath of abuse. A groundbreaking collection, the poems in Your Body Is War embody elements of conflict, making them simultaneously a place of destruction and of freedom.