We kneel in the wreckage Palms upturned Sorting shards Here your grandmother's silence There my cracked defiance
We glue them with gold Not to hide the breaks But to make the seams glow
In this powerful debut poetry collection, Sahar Dandan maps the space between a woman's silence and her scream, examining the wounds that shape womanhood and the legacies mothers pass on.
Dandan's visceral and incisive poetry explores the ways women are taught to be, the shapes they are obliged to take, and the margins they are expected to confine themselves to. From generation to generation, these traditions are passed down in fairy tales left unfinished and lullabies sharpened into weapons.
Both arresting and resonant, When the Wild Things Mend challenges readers to plant gardens of rebellion and stitch their names into the spines of books they were told they shouldn't write.
