The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi

Free ebooks downloads for mobile phones The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi

Download The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose PDF

The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose
Zehra Naqvi
Page: 96
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780771014932
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Download The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose

Free ebooks downloads for mobile phones The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi

For readers of Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come for Us, here is a searing, multidimensional debut about the search for language and self, which is life itself. I knew it was time to build what could carry, what could find the high point to name what I knew to be the world and carry it with me At the heart of The Knot of My Tongue is Zehra Naqvi’s storying of language itself and the self-re-visioning that follows devastating personal rupture. Employing a variety of poetic forms, these intimate, searching poems address generations, continents, and dominions to examine loss of expression in the aftermath of collisions with powerful forces, ranging from histories to intimacies. Naqvi follows a cast of characters from personal memory, family history, and Quranic traditions, at instances where they have either been rendered silent or found ways to attempt the inexpressible—a father struggling to speak as an immigrant in Canada; a grandmother as she loses her children and her home after the 1947 Partition; the Islamic story of Hajar, abandoned in the desert without water; the myth of Philomela who finds language even after her husband cuts off her tongue. Brilliantly blending the personal and the communal, memory and myth, theology and tradition, the poems in this collection train our attention—slow and immediate, public and private—on our primal ability to communicate, recover, and survive. This example is striking for the power of its speaking through loss and a singular, radiant vision.

Unusual Funeral Poetry
We've curated a selection of beautiful and unusual poems and readings for anyone looking for something a little different. the knot in my throat. The breeze
Zehra Naqvi
“Just as the revered Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz commanded us to speak in his seminal piece 'Bol,' so too does Zehra Naqvi's 'The Knot of My Tongue' compel us to
The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi
in 3 days —
A Poetry thread (limericks, verse, prose too)
Apr 12, 2018 —
Massey Arts Society The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and
Massey Arts Society The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi.
The most beautiful poems for funerals
Mar 14, 2022 —
The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose - Zehra Naqvi
in 3 days —
The Knot of My Tongue by Zehra Naqvi (9780771014932)
The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose For readers of Fatimah Asghar's If They Come for Us, here is a searing, multidimensional debut about the search for

Download more ebooks: [PDF/Kindle] More Tales from Fur After Dark by Eric W Schwartz pdf,