Scars/Stars
2013
First Published
4.32
Average Rating
120
Number of Pages
In her book Beloved, Toni Morrison describes the whip scars on a former slave’s back as a tree sprouting from her flesh. Walidah Imarisha’s first poetic collection invokes this same process of alchemy, transforming both individual and collective scars into North Stars, guideposts that center us and keep us moving in the right direction. Scars/Stars reminds us that even in ravaged earth, something beautiful can still grow.
Avg Rating
4.32
Number of Ratings
25
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
Walidah Imarisha
Author · 3 books
Walidah Imarisha is a writer, public scholar, educator and spoken word artist. She co-edited the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, and was one of the editors of the first anthology about 9/11, Another World is Possible. She authored Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prisons, and Redemption, winner of the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, as well as a poetry collection Scars/Stars. Imarisha is currently working on a book about Oregon Black history, forthcoming from AK Press. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including the hip hop anthology Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics of Hip Hop, Letters From Young Activists, Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, The Quotable Rebel, Daddy, Can I Tell You Something, Joe Strummer: Punk Rock Warlord and Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency. She directed and co-produced the Katrina documentary Finding Common Ground in New Orleans. She has taught at Stanford University, Portland State University, and Oregon State University.
