"“Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision.” ―Natasha TretheweySomebody is always singing. Songswere not allowed. Mother said,Dance and the bells will sing with you.I slithered. Glass beneath my feet. Ilocked the door. I did notdie. I shaved my head. Until the hornsI knew were there were visible.Until the doorknob went silent. ―from “100 Bells”Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullah’s highly anticipated se ..."
Seam(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) by TarfiaFaizullah Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2014 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3325-7, ISBN: 0-8093-3325-2
"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 en ..."
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"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 ..."