Description |
96 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96). |
Contents |
Register of eliminated villages -- The hidden register of hunger -- Self-portrait as mango -- Acolyte -- Your own country -- The sacrifice -- IV and make-up homework -- West Texas nocturne -- The performance of no one's fingers -- Djinn in need of a bitch -- Feast or famine -- Before the accident, and after -- 100 bells -- The hidden register of submission -- Self-portrait as slinky -- What this elegy wants -- To the Bangladeshi cab driver in San Francisco -- To the littlest brother -- Soliloquies from the village of orphans and widows -- You own palm -- Consider the hands once smaller -- Dark pairing -- Poetry recitation at St. Catherine's school for girls -- Sex or sleep or silk -- Great material -- You ask why write about it again -- The hidden register of solace -- Self-portrait as Artemis -- The distance between fire and stone -- The error of echo -- The doors to Trinity -- Diary -- Apology from a Muslim orphan -- Searchlight payar -- Aubade with sage and lemon -- Because there's still a sky, junebug -- I told the water -- Mother -- Variations on a cemetery in summer...but you can't stay here -- Fable of the firstborn -- Notes. |
Summary |
Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullahs highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, Seam. Faizullahs new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voiceselegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory. |
Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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ISBN |
9781555978006 (paperback) |
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1555978002 (paperback) |
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