{"id":6738,"date":"2023-12-05T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2023-12-05T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:22:41","slug":"poet-safia-elhillo-writes-girls-that-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/poet-safia-elhillo-writes-girls-that-never-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Safia Elhillo Writes (Girls That Never Die)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her latest collection, Elhillo is no longer writing \u201cwell-behaved poems.\u201d<br \/>\nSafia Elhillo\u2019s latest poetry collection,\u00a0Girls That Never Die, is an invitation to freedom to herself and other women. Elhillo, a decorated poet, is the author of\u00a0The January Children\u00a0as well as a National Book Award finalist for her novel in verse\u00a0(Home Is Not a Country) . Always examining home, generational trauma, and family history, Elhillo digs even deeper in her latest collection.<br \/>\nIn\u00a0(Girls That Never Die), imagines a new world \u2014 one where women have autonomy, where they aren\u2019t shamed for who or what they are, where they are protected. Using magical realism while also drawing from her own life and family, she explores Muslim girlhood and shame, desire and violence, and the dangers of being a woman.<br \/>\nThis collection investigates the pressures society \u2014 and Sudanese culture \u2014 puts on women, and what it feels like to succumb to that pressure. But this collection also dreams up a world where women rise above these expectations and limitations. Shondaland spoke with Elhillo about myths, fear, and policing femme bodies.<br \/>\nEvery single poem is stellar.\u201d\u2014Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger In Girls That Never Die,by\u00a0Safia Elhillo award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women\u2019s bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power.<br \/>\nElhillo writes a new world: women escape their stonings by birds that carry the rocks away; slain girls grow into two, like the hydra of lore, sprouting too numerous to ever be eradicated; circles of women are deemed holy, protected. Ultimately, Girls That Never Die is about wrestling ourselves from the threats of violence that constrain our lives, and instead looking to freedom and questioning: [what if i will not die] [what will govern me then. I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events In her latest collection, Elhillo is no longer writing \u201cwell-behaved poems.\u201d Safia Elhillo\u2019s latest poetry collection,\u00a0Girls That Never Die, is an invitation to freedom to herself and other women. Elhillo, a decorated poet, is the author of\u00a0The January Children\u00a0as well as a National Book Award finalist for her novel in verse\u00a0(Home &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6740,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions\/6740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}