In 2020, after two years of repeated rejections, documented via an Excel sheet, Ama Asantewa Diaka, aka Poetra Asantewa, scored a deal with one of the big five English-language publishing companies. Under Ecco books, an imprint of HarperCollins, her debut collection of poems exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures will be published. Titled Woman, Eat Me Whole , the book also touches on themes like perceptions of beauty, the betrayals of the body, and what it means to give consent. Feeling both anxious and excited to have the collection finally be released, after selling it two years ago, the young poet has been eager to share her work with others on a wider scale. "I feel like my work has existed on different platforms or in different shapes and forms, and I get to have a full body of work that exists in print," Asantewa told OkayAfrica. The 2016 OneBeat fellow has earned critical acclaim for her incisive ...