Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets (Calico Series, 12) Binding Type:Paperback Appropriating Blackness develops from the

Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity—avowed and disavowed

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Anthony O'Neal utilizes his trademark humor

Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets (Calico Series, 12) Binding Type:Paperback Appropriating Blackness develops from theFive female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war torn country and its diaspora. There are hypnotic, long beards tangled with mass extinctions; hateful men burning grapevines; black blindfolds; jinn in chadors; and condoms advertised every eight minutes on TV. Interspersing these are tender moments: one poet describes brushing her daughters hair, while another imagines a tree growing at