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Dancing between lyric and narrative, Hafizah Geter's debut collection moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes-linguistic, cultural, racial, familial-of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration. The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you. Through her mother's death and her father's illnesses, Geter weaves the natural world into the discourse of grief, human interactions, and socio-political discord. This collection thrums with authenticity and heart.
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"Hafizah Geter is the kind of poet I can't do without. She questions how poetry operates in our culture and is unafraid to show us the ugly. She is committed to the public, to the way social imaginaries become real ones. It is unglamorous work and only a few poets do it on the regular, who use the title of "poet" as a vocation, as interrogator of false meritocracies, as a way to distill how racism
Megan Fernandes
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- SeriesWesleyan Poetry