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Saaro Umar Saaro Umar i(10503636 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Ethiopian
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1 Take the Good News Saaro Umar , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 43 2019; (p. 63-64) 'My uncle and I stood out the back of our first home - a house my dad designed with a big living room facing out to the front yard. and e design was his own, resembling the homes he knew in a sort of memory, one with a large living space sometimes covered in a sea of mattresses, and other times, a space for parties, welcoming those that found themselves walking through that front door. New arrivals would sometimes opt to stay with us over the migrant hostels the government provided - somewhere that felt more domestic than a camp, a prison, a reminder. and They would take any available bed to sleep on until they found their way, my little body next to my sister's, on a small thickness of foam, we'd lay in our walk-in robes, closing the door to sleep. My uncle and I stood, on a busy night in the house, on a square of grass facing the fence of our neighbours, not looking at each other, speaking softly. I asked him, what animals should I expect to see back home, and he humoured me, describing in detail the lions and elephants, hyenas and zebras that roamed free in Oromia - our lands, our people, country somehow continuing forever, missing some bodies looking back in their minds. It was somewhere around that moment, or maybe in the retelling of my curiosity back to me, that I decided to dedicate my life to animals, or, orient myself towards a type of care, as noble and good. and at, being in care for something in which I saw beau#, to care for something that I could not yet understand but yearned to, was the highest form of devotion. Hindsight is so wild, so cutting.' (Publication abstract)
1 (Untitled) Saaro Umar , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
1 Baga Nagayaan Dhufte i "from clay", Saaro Umar , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian Australian Journal , vol. 31 no. 2017;
1 Ode: to Blue i "because the senses crave melody", Saaro Umar , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Innocent Eyes!: Ekphrasis and the Defiant Multiplicity of the Female Gaze
1 On His Portrayal of Coach Boone in Remember the Titans Saaro Umar , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter vol. 227 no. 2017; (p. 53)
1 The Archivist in Line at the Kebab Shop i "so you know how i was telling", Saaro Umar , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Summer no. 106 2016-2017; (p. 18-19)
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