In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, â The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.â What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one's own land.
In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, â The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.â What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one's own land.
Safia Elhillo is a Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. She is the author of The Life and Times of Susie Knuckles.
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Foreword by Kwame Dawes Acknowledgments asmarani makes prayer vocabulary Sudan Today. Nairobi: University of Africa, 1971. Print. to make use of water [did our mothers invent loneliness or . . . ] while being escorted from the abdelhalim hafez concert application for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl abdelhalim hafez asks for references talking with an accent about home origin stories a brief history of silence the last time marvin gaye was heard in the sudan first interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl the lovers talking with an accent about home first adornment callback interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl bride price old wives’ tales date night with abdelhalim hafez first quarantine with abdelhalim hafez self-portrait with dirty hair watching arab idol with abdelhalim hafez self-portrait with the question of race second date abdelhalim hafez wants to see other people red moon night self-portrait with yellow dress others alternate ending [& what is a country but the drawing . . . .] late-night phone call with abdelhalim hafez republic of the sudan / ministry of interior / passport & immigration general directorate / alien from sudanese origin passcard talking with an accent about home talking with an accent about home (second take) second quarantine with abdelhalim hafez portrait with asylum talking to boys about abdelhalim hafez at parties biopic containing lies about abdelhalim hafez asmarani does psychogeography why abdelhalim self-portrait with lake nasser abdelhalim hafez asks who the sudanese are the part i keep forgetting talking with an accent about home (reprise) third quarantine with abdelhalim hafez final interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl self-portrait as abdelhalim hafez’s girl portrait with abdelhalim hafez with the question of race lovers’ quarrel with abdelhalim hafez portrait of abdelhalim hafez as orpheus glossary everything i know about abdelhalim hafez notes
Foreword by Kwame Dawes Acknowledgments asmarani makes prayer vocabulary Sudan Today. Nairobi: University of Africa, 1971. Print. to make use of water [did our mothers invent loneliness or . . . ] while being escorted from the abdelhalim hafez concert application for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl abdelhalim hafez asks for references talking with an accent about home origin stories a brief history of silence the last time marvin gaye was heard in the sudan first interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl the lovers talking with an accent about home first adornment callback interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl bride price old wives’ tales date night with abdelhalim hafez first quarantine with abdelhalim hafez self-portrait with dirty hair watching arab idol with abdelhalim hafez self-portrait with the question of race second date abdelhalim hafez wants to see other people red moon night self-portrait with yellow dress others alternate ending [& what is a country but the drawing . . . .] late-night phone call with abdelhalim hafez republic of the sudan / ministry of interior / passport & immigration general directorate / alien from sudanese origin passcard talking with an accent about home talking with an accent about home (second take) second quarantine with abdelhalim hafez portrait with asylum talking to boys about abdelhalim hafez at parties biopic containing lies about abdelhalim hafez asmarani does psychogeography why abdelhalim self-portrait with lake nasser abdelhalim hafez asks who the sudanese are the part i keep forgetting talking with an accent about home (reprise) third quarantine with abdelhalim hafez final interview for the position of abdelhalim hafez’s girl self-portrait as abdelhalim hafez’s girl portrait with abdelhalim hafez with the question of race lovers’ quarrel with abdelhalim hafez portrait of abdelhalim hafez as orpheus glossary everything i know about abdelhalim hafez notes
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