Revolutions Front Cover


ISBN: 9781772016505
Pages: 113 pp
Pub. Date: May 6 2025
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.3125"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / POE013000

  • POETRY / Canadian
  • POETRY / Women Authors
  • POETRY / Middle Eastern

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Revolutions
By Hajer Mirwali

Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure. In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum’s artwork + and –, Revolutions asks how young Arab women – who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable – make and unmake their identities. Working between a Palestinian and Iraqi poetics drawing from artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles.

"This collections weaves and interleaves such wonderful structural variety, offering a myriad of threads that swirl around a collision of cultures." — rob mclennan