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Seam (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
Tarfia Faizullah
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Description for Seam (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
Paperback. Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 7. Weight in Grams: 152.
The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child of Bangladeshi immigrants, the poet in turn explores her own losses, as well as the complexities of bearing witness to the atrocities these war heroines endured.
Throughout the volume, the narrator endeavours to bridge generational and cultural gaps even as the victims recount the horror of grief and personal loss. As we ... Read more
The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child of Bangladeshi immigrants, the poet in turn explores her own losses, as well as the complexities of bearing witness to the atrocities these war heroines endured.
Throughout the volume, the narrator endeavours to bridge generational and cultural gaps even as the victims recount the horror of grief and personal loss. As we ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor's Selection
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809333257
SKU
V9780809333257
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About Tarfia Faizullah
Tarfia Faizullah was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1980, and raised in Midland, Texas, by parents who had immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh in 1978. She has an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, and ... Read more
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