MAAFA

The 87 Press

MAAFA\nby Harmony Holiday\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Harmony Holiday\nTitle: MAAFA\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: The 87 Press\nPublication year: 2025\nISBN-13: 9781068644696\nISBN-10: 1068644699\nRRP: \u00A314.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nMAAFA is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. MAAFA undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life.\nLonglisted for the 2023 PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry Collection\nMaafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, and echoes the Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is always in progress. Maafa killed her father in the barracoons because the sight of him in captivity beside her was too much to bear. Now she is .