Maafa

by Harmony Holiday

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN America Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.

Maafa is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. Maafa undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life. Maafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, and echoes the Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is always in progress. Maafa killed her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194438023X
• ISBN13: 9781944380236
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Fence Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 7.8"