The poet Fadwa Tuqan's account of growing up confined in a Nablus household and finding her voice.
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The poet Fadwa Tuqan's account of growing up confined in a Nablus household and finding her voice.
Andal, trans. Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Ravi Shankar
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The complete poems of Andal, the eighth-century Tamil poet and saint, in new English translations by Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Ravi Shankar. Written before she was twenty, her verses to her chosen god speak of desire, longing and a young woman's refusal of any other life. Winner of the Muse India Translation Prize. Our October giveaway prize, with Zubaan Books.
Prose and poetry on living between cultures, languages and sexualities on the US-Mexico border.
Forugh Farrokhzad, trans. Sholeh Wolpé
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Poems by the twentieth century's boldest Persian woman poet, on desire, freedom and the confinement of women.
How Bedouin women and men use short poems to voice feelings their code of honour forbids them to say.