Merde : Love Notes From Your Daughter.

A.k.Toure, is a daughter, poet, creative, and academic currently living Ivory Coast, West Africa. Cook by day, writer by night. She currently lives in the post-colonial town of Grand Bassam. Where she and her mother, run a humble beach front resort they inherited from her late father. Born in London, Bred in New York City, and Buttered in Ivory Coast, a.k.touré's first book is of her poetic journey with healing. Healing the loss of her father, Healing the lived experience of surviving a jihadi terrorist attack on March 13th, 2016Healing and learning to live with sexual trauma and love post.Healing relations to the world, patterns, and connection to spirit.Healing through prose on race, gender, sexuality, and representationHealing the everyday With each morning that rises, so does her light.Her ability to change, born anew.How many times can I scream heal, heal, heal, and not even wind offers me salvationAs waves pass, so does my need to shift.And in thatBorn anew

• | Author: A K Toure, Aissata Cecelia Aline Koralik-Toure
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jul 05, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 278 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1986734285
• | ISBN-13: 9781986734288