Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems
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A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between culturesย
Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.
Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external,ย Woman, Eat Me Wholeย is an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countriesโ ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the dislocation and fragmentation of a bodyโand a mindโso often restless or ill at ease.
Vivid and bodily while also deeply cerebral,ย Woman, Eat Me Wholeย is a searing debut collection from a poet with an inimitable voice and vision.ย
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Ama Asantewa Diaka is a Ghanaian poet, storyteller, and spoken word artist who performs as Poetra Asantewa. She is the author of the chapbook, You Too Will Know Me, and the debut poetry collection, Woman, Eat Me Whole, and her poems and fiction have appeared in print and online. She recently completed an MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Ghana.
