My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter Comics & Graphic Novels The long form poem is

The long form poem is tethered in folklore and personal narrative

as well as an introductory essay written exclusively for this publication

is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South

and passionately-lived lives is written "with such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message" (The New York Times)

and a super-duper imagination - to whip up a trip around the universe he won't soon forget

My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter Comics & Graphic Novels The long form poem isMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.