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100			_aMehri, Momtaza _97145
245		0	_aBad Diaspora Poems/ _cMomtaza Mehri
260			_bJonathan Cape; _c2023
300			_a115p; _c20x14cm
520			_aThe definition of diaspora is the dispersion of people from their original homeland. But what does it mean to write diaspora poetry? Momtaza Mehri's debut collection poses this question, taking us from Mogadishu to Naples, Lampedusa to London. Mixing her own family's experience with the stories of many others across nineteenth- and twentieth-century Somalia, Bad Diaspora Poems confronts the ambivalent nature of speaking for those who have been left behind. We meet the poet, the translator, the refugee, the exile, and the diaspora kid attempting to transcend their clichéd angst. Told in lyric, prose and text messages, and taking place in living rooms and marketplaces, on buses and balconies, on transatlantic journeys and online, these are essential poems about our diasporic age.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aPN1010-1525 Poetry _91039
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