A review by raluca_p
Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo
5.0
“But what if I will not die?
What will govern me then?
How to govern me then?
What bounty, then, on my names?
What stone What rope What man
will be my officer?”
*
“& isn't a map only a joke we all agreed into a fact
& where can i touch the equator & how will i know
i am touching it & where is the end of my country
the beginning of the next how will i know i've crossed over”
*
“For a time I believed
myself in love with Orpheus, which only meant I loved
what I could make if I were free from what happened to my body.
That man who would never touch me, kept distance and without danger
by the barriers of fiction. Then I believed the work would save me.
I have no real use now for those Greek myths, their dead girls,
women raped by men and animals. Today the door is locked. Today
nobody is outside.
(...)
And all I know about Eurydice
is that she died. My every other fact about her is about him.”
What will govern me then?
How to govern me then?
What bounty, then, on my names?
What stone What rope What man
will be my officer?”
*
“& isn't a map only a joke we all agreed into a fact
& where can i touch the equator & how will i know
i am touching it & where is the end of my country
the beginning of the next how will i know i've crossed over”
*
“For a time I believed
myself in love with Orpheus, which only meant I loved
what I could make if I were free from what happened to my body.
That man who would never touch me, kept distance and without danger
by the barriers of fiction. Then I believed the work would save me.
I have no real use now for those Greek myths, their dead girls,
women raped by men and animals. Today the door is locked. Today
nobody is outside.
(...)
And all I know about Eurydice
is that she died. My every other fact about her is about him.”