A review by amckiereads
Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems by Dominique Christina
4.0
So much of the things we take for granted and enjoy in this world have terrible histories. Do you know the history of gynaecology? J Marion Sims is considered the father of modern gynaecology, but most of what he learned was based on experiments on slave women, on whom he performed surgeries without anesthesia.
In this slim collection of poems Dominique Christina images Anarcha’s life, allowing her to speak for herself. Anarcha had 13 surgeries performed on her. Here, finally, she gets a voice. She gets a chance to talk back to the historical narrative which has ignored her or included her suffering as a minor footnote.
In this slim collection of poems Dominique Christina images Anarcha’s life, allowing her to speak for herself. Anarcha had 13 surgeries performed on her. Here, finally, she gets a voice. She gets a chance to talk back to the historical narrative which has ignored her or included her suffering as a minor footnote.