How to Cure a Ghost: Fariha Róisín

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I can only hope the author was able to forgive those who wronged her and heal her generational trauma.

I’m a feminist, but I’m a white feminist, and I’m very aware of the privilege which comes with that. In these short and potent stanzas she makes it clear that while she's been able to lay down the ghosts that have haunted her own self-worth, loving herself back to health after the mental and physical exhaustion of weathering constant aggressions is a long and continuous process. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

I found her writing to be raw, but also soft enough to gently draw out the words into a series of beautiful poems. The struggles she faced as a queer, young Muslim woman puts into focus the parallel strife of the everyday brown woman. It explores shame, ancestral trauma and violence—weaving in Róisin’s personal experience of abuse at the hands of her mother, while also being trapped in a body, time and era where she’s being forced to confront the many things that have haunted her.

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.There is no doubt however that the poems in How to Cure a Ghost are very personal to the author and came from the heart. I would highly recommend this collection to any fans of poetry , or just if you want a collection as a starting point i would recommend this one too.