The Body Family

By Hope Wabuke

Book Overview

This visceral and revelatory poetry collection tells the story of a family's journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda's Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. Wabuke digs deeply into a personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to life, articulating what it means to live in a Black female body navigating a diaspora haunted by British colonization and American enslavement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1642596973
• ISBN13: 9781642596977
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"