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    The Birds That Fly Within Her
    The Birds That Fly Within Her
    The Birds That Fly Within Her
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    The Birds That Fly Within Her

    By Gloria Steele-Hatten

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    Gloria Cinchona Steele-Hatten is a mother, wife, spiritual adviser, and fertility health counselor, passionate about healing through the power of the Word, integrating spirituality, sex, and art. With acute aptitude for interpreting the spiritual, mythological, or symbolic in literature, film, and pop culture, Mrs. Steele-Hatten loves engaging in socio-sexual-political discourse concerning representations of women in modern mass media and how these images inherit, perpetuate, challenge, or refute ancient ideas and representations of women, particularly in religious iconography, mythology and ritual. The poems in All the Birds That Fly Within Her allude heavily to Divine feminine archetypes in Yoruba indigenous spirituality, as well as to issues of women's suppression and rape culture. The collection also illuminates the intense psycho-sexual and spiritual dysfunction inevitable within a Eurocentric patriarchal hegemony, and its toxic effects on marriage, parenting, and the Original family community unit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMar 25, 2015
    ISBN9781312121546
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      The Birds That Fly Within Her - Gloria Steele-Hatten

      The Birds That Fly Within Her

      All The Birds That Fly Within Her

      Vol 1: Apple Seeds

      by: Gloria Cinchona Steele-Hatten

      Dedication

      for my firstborn, my Prince and protector, my Good Boy

      ....tell Nana I miss her

      Table of Contents

      Osa Odi

      The river Fulani

      The David Praise

      Recuerdame y Regresar: 3 <3 @ 45

      Cure For The Common Nigga

      ACT II

      The Bicycle Mechanic

      Expatriate Love

      The Tower Falls In Corozal

      Dandelions

      Sonnet 07/02/09-12/11/13

      Osa, Odi

      the way cats in heat sound like children

      calling for each other, crowding

      like moths around the streetlight posts

      knowing they should be home

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