STILL I RISE: VOICES OF WOMEN FROM AROUND THE WORLD - Softcover

Journal, The Hemlock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1969601094 ISBN 13: 9781969601095

Verlag: The Hemlock Journal and Quillkeepers Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Hemlock Journal and Quillkeepers Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1969601094
• ISBN 13: 9781969601095
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
• Herausgeber: Press Quillkeepers
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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