Belly to the Brutal Givhan Jennifer
Belly to the Brutal Givhan Jennifer Poetry for all the mothers and daughters healing the bloodlinesBelly to the Brutal sings a corrido of the love between mothers and daughters, confronting the…
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Belly to the Brutal Givhan Jennifer
Poetry for all the mothers and daughters healing the bloodlinesBelly to the Brutal sings a corrido of the love between mothers and daughters, confronting the learned complicity with patriarchal violence passed down from generation to generation. Drawing from curanderisma and a revived wave of feminist brujera, Jennifer Givhan creates a healing space for Brown women and mothers. This poetry edges into the borderlands, touching the realm of chora--humming, screaming, rhythm--transporting the words outside of patriarchal and racist constructs.
The poems dwell in the thick language of motherfear, where love grows too / in the shining center of the wound. Each poem finds its own form, interweaving beauty and devastation to create a pathway out of the systems that have for too long oppressed women. This poetry of invocation moves toward a transformation of violence
The Brutal Telling
Belly of the Beast
Kick in the Belly
Sweetness in the Belly
Brutal
The 10-Day Belly Slimdown
In the Belly of the Beast
Brutal Prince
Brutal North