In the dynamic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín writes, prays, digs, and struggles to free herself from the traps of generational traumatic experience, seeking the freedom her mother did not receive and the compassion she could not offer.
This poetry collection poses a kaleidoscopic number of questions: Who is my family? My father? How can I love a mother who is no longer here? Can I see myself? What does it mean to be Bangladeshi? What is a border? Inherently hopeful and unwaveringly powerful, Fariha's voice turns to the optimism and beauty that lie in reconstructing the self and, by extension, the world in which the self moves.
Essential to the human experience, the collection Survival Takes a Wild Imagination is an illuminating breath of fresh air from a powerful poetic voice.