Registers of illuminated villages : poems / Tarfia Faizullah.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781555978006
- 1555978002
- Poems. Selections
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Main Library | NonFiction | 811.6 F175 | Available | 33111009173838 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision." --Natasha Trethewey
Somebody is always singing. Songs
were not allowed. Mother said,
Dance and the bells will sing with you.
I slithered. Glass beneath my feet. I
locked the door. I did not
die. I shaved my head. Until the horns
I knew were there were visible.
Until the doorknob went silent.
--from "100 Bells"
Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullah's highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, Seam . Faizullah's new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices--elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory. One poem steps down the page like a Slinky; another poem responds to makeup homework completed in the summer of a childhood accident; other poems punctuate the collection with dark meditations on dissociation, discipline, defiance, and destiny; and the near-title poem, "Register of Eliminated Villages," suggests illuminated texts, one a Qur'an in which the speaker's name might be found, and the other a register of 397 villages destroyed in northern Iraq. Faizullah is an essential new poet whose work only grows more urgent, beautiful, and--even in its unsparing brutality--full of love.
Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullahs highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, Seam. Faizullahs new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices, elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory.