Erscheint: August 2026
Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Still I Rise
Voices Of Women From Around The World
Verlag:
Quillkeepers Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36474109
EAN: 9781969601095
Erscheint: August 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 38.75
Beschreibung
Across borders, generations, cultures, and lived experiences, women have always carried stories the world was not prepared to hear. Still I Rise: Voices of Women from Around the World. is a powerful and deeply moving anthology of poetry and prose that explores the many ways women survive, remember, resist, grieve, love, and begin again. From the intimate realities of the body to the weight of inherited silence, these writers confront the expectations, histories, and systems that have asked women to shrink themselves, soften their voices, and wait for permission to become whole. Here, a daughter remembers the hands of women who came before her. A girl becomes a god only to discover the violence hidden beneath worship. A woman waits in clinics, behind curtains, and outside embassy gates for the right to speak for herself. Mothers carry grief in recipes. Grandmothers pass down both trauma and resilience. Women reclaim bodies they were taught to surrender, dreams they were taught to abandon, and voices that were once dismissed as too loud, too angry, too much. These are poems of motherhood and infertility, aging and perimenopause, sexuality and survival, faith and rebellion, cultural memory and political resistance. They are stories of women navigating war, violence, grief, oppression, and the quiet, daily labor of being expected to endure. But they are also stories of joy: of kitchen dances, family rituals, inherited laughter, sisterhood, and the fierce beauty of a life unapologetically lived. Together, these voices form something greater than a collection. They become a river, a chorus, a fracture in the walls of history. Still I Rise. is a testament to the women who were silenced and the women who sang anyway-to the women who were broken, burdened, overlooked, and underestimated, and who found one another in the dark. Because still, she rises.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- The Hemlock Journal
- Quillkeepers Press
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 112