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Hafizah Geter
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes acclaimed poet HAFIZAH GETER for a discussion of her debut poetry collection, Un-American. She will be joined in conversation by SALLY WEN MAO, author of the acclaimed poetry collections Mad Honey Symposium and Oculus.
Dancing between lyric and narrative, Hafizah Geter's debut collection moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes—linguistic, cultural, racial, familial—of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration. The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you. Through her mother's death and her father's illnesses, Geter weaves the natural world into the discourse of grief, human interactions, and socio-political discord. This collection thrums with authenticity and heart.
