Europe, Love Me Back

Europe, Love Me Back is a collection of relentlessly questing, sharply satirical poems about the continent, and the poet’s fraught relationship with it.

Europe, Love Me Back is a collection of relentlessly questing, sharply satirical poems about the continent, and the poet''s fraught relationship with it. Hurting yet clear-eyed, Rizwan explores and exposes what it means to be a small brown woman in Dutch suburbs, hospitals and academia

This is an angry love letter, to a place left behind yet always there, continuing to matter and hurt and shape the poet''s identity.

"But no one was interested in eliciting my testimony;
after all I wasn’t dead – I wasn’t ill – and hadn’t this
country treated me so well?

For it is not a human right to be much more than Agamben’s bare life,
to exist in the hallowed halls of the academe,
because there comes a point when our wanting
is simply too much, obscene –"

• | Author: Rakhshan Rizwan
• | Publisher: The Emma Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781912915149
• | ISBN-10: 1912915146