How to Cure a Ghost: Fariha Róisín

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If Fariha Roisin does not want to be judged for how she looks than she needs to work on not judging others by the same stereotypes. I’m a feminist, but I’m a white feminist, and I’m very aware of the privilege which comes with that. My favorites were “Golden Lube,” “Mansplain Nation,” “Rumi,” “This One’s with Teeth,” “What 9/11 Did to Us,” and “Belonging. I can't dive deeper into the meaning of the poems because they feel as a way to deal with her own trauma and feelings, and it feels wrong to rate them when I have not shared similar experiences.

Fariha Róisín uses her poems as a way to speak about what it’s like to navigate the terrain of colonialism in a brown, queer, Muslim body.

Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Roisin and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities. How to Cure a Ghost explores a young woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, and deserves to be as widely read as possible.

was a much-needed history lesson, ruminating on the year where the Pakistani army invaded Bangladesh, committing genocide of three million Bangladeshis. I also really loved the artwork, i think the cover and inside art is really beautiful and goes with the book contents really well. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.It's about the abuse enacted by mothers, while considering the history of that abuse; it's about the psychological torture of being talked about but never heard, of not knowing the sound of our own voices because of how long it's been drowned out by others, it's about a deep empathy and respect for abusive parents who have survived so much that you'll never have to go through. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities. The underdeveloped metaphors along with the insistence of talking about the same themes that have already been discussed in plenty of other poetry collections before made me give this book only 1 star - it brings to the literary scene absolutely nothing new. This is a hard one to review because I think the topics and themes explored are really important (for example did you know that 400,000 women were raped in 1971 in the Liberation War of Bangladesh? are very important and should still be addressed… i just don’t think this is how i’d like to read about them personally.Certains des poèmes étaient hyper poignants et émouvants, on ressent sa rage, sa haine, sa fierté, son amour. With that being said, most of the poems just end up lacking maturity and falling into every single postmodern poetry cliche imaginable. In other reviews I have seen curiosity about essays and nonfiction and I would echo these sentiments, hoping to see further exploration of writing styles. If you’re like me, and often quick to dismiss poetry as a result of terrible required reading at school, please be reassured that there is some fucking awesome modern poetry available. The author speaks about her own experiences, and I feel I have no right to say if they deserve a three, four, five, star rating.

I found her writing to be raw, but also soft enough to gently draw out the words into a series of beautiful poems. And 400,000 women were raped ( they were not known and never will be known … r emember us, like you’d remember white death). Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. To be completely honest, so far I find myself finding bits and pieces of her works that are really nice; complimentary in a way.A poetry compilation recounting a woman's journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness. In these short and potent stanzas she makes it clear that while she's been able to lay down the ghosts that have haunted her own self-worth, loving herself back to health after the mental and physical exhaustion of weathering constant aggressions is a long and continuous process. This year I’ve been on something of a mission to educate myself about other experiences and stories, and this poetry collection has certainly left a mark.