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ISBN: 9781949641844
Author: Multiple Authors
Series Statement: The Calico Series
Publisher Information: Two Line Press
Publication Date: 2025/09/02
Topical Subject Header: Poetry; Short Stories

Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets

C$23.00Price

  • Five female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war-torn country and its diaspora. There are "hypnotic, long beards" tangled with mass extinctions; hateful men burning grapevines; black blindfolds; jinn in chadors; and condoms advertised every eight minutes on TV. Interspersing these are tender moments: one poet describes brushing her daughter's hair, while another imagines a tree growing at the center of a room, undisturbed by the bombs outside. In the wake of the Taliban's escalating war on Afghan women's rights, Hair on Fire is a blazing tribute to a group of exceptional poetesses and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced.

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