Some things break cleanly. Others splinter into a thousand directions — each fragment holding its own weight, its own memory, its own refusal to disappear.
On Mending Broken Wings is a collection of poems that live in the space between loss and continuation. Between the women who shaped a diaspora and the silence they carried across waters. Between what was taken and what quietly remained.
These are not poems of resolution. They are poems of gold in the cracks.
E.V. Alis writes at the intersection of memory, diaspora, and the quietly radical act of witness. Drawing on the experiences of women from Guinea-Bissau and beyond, her work asks what it means to carry a history — and what it means to set it down.
On Mending Broken Wings is her debut collection.
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