Woman, Eat Me Whole

<p><strong>A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures </strong></p><p>Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.</p><p>Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external, <em>Woman, Eat Me Whole</em> is an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countries’ ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the dislocation and fragmentation of a body—and a mind—so often restless or ill at ease.</p><p>Vivid and bodily while also deeply cerebral, <em>Woman, Eat Me Whole</em> is a searing debut collection from a poet with an inimitable voice and vision. </p>