Your Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human
body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world,
refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and
raw, Mahtem Shiferraw's poems explore what the woman's body
has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the
aftermath of abuse. A groundbreaking collection, the poems
in Your Body Is War embody elements of conflict,
making them simultaneously a place of destruction and of
freedom.