Through a personal historical and political lens Mahtem Shiferraw attends to the collective experiences inherited through deeplyrooted ancestry tracing patterns of movement and migration sorrow and invisibility and the resulting complicated notions of home.InampampnbspNomenclatures of Invisibility Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body language and land. With momentum giving name to everything in her path from the longing that comes with migration to her beloved eucalyptus tree she blurs physical and temporal borders paying homage to ancestors past present and future. Shiferraw writes unapologetically against erasure against invisibility instead creating a space that holds grief lovingly that can tend to the wounds held and held in the endlesslytraveling body. Brilliant with abundance and texture Shiferraws poems dismantle the empires sterile useampampnbspof language both historical and present.ampampnbspInampampnbspNomenclatures of Invisibility Mahtem Shiferraw builds a home within her poems attentively naming those who exist within them out of invisibility and into the radiant light We walk in unison too our backs bending at once our arms breaking our abdomens kicked into silence thighs bleeding. Through this I ask am I still lit And they again .what else would you be