Torn Apart (Déchirures), Joyce Mansour’s second volume of poetry, is a collection of 117 numbered poems that together appear to undertake an exploration of what the poet sees beyond the fabric of religious belief when that fabric is subjected to… Read More ›
I Want To Meet … Armed, upright and shielded in armourI went forth –but from fear was the coat of mail castand from shame. I want to throw down my weapons,sword and shield.All the stark hostilitywas my coldness. I have… Read More ›
The poem Exile appears in the Love Poems of Taslima Nasrin It expresses the emotional pain of this exiled writer and her yearning for her homeland. Exposing her innermost vulnerability and loneliness, the poet addresses her country as would a pining… Read More ›
“Ancestral Weight” (“Peso ancestral”), published in Alfonsina Storni’s second poetry collection and sometimes translated as “Ancestral Burden,” provides a historical dimension to the expression of tensions between the genders evident in her early works, even as it belies the claim… Read More ›
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