How’d Your Parents Die Again?
A beautiful poem by Fatimah Asghar published by the New York Times "The basic rules for writing a ghazal seem straightforward — five to 15...
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A beautiful poem by Fatimah Asghar published by the New York Times
"The basic rules for writing a ghazal seem straightforward — five to 15 couplets, one word repeated at the end of each stanza — but transporting this seventh-century Arabian form into a 21st-century American lyric is no mean trick. Fatimah Asghar’s brilliant offering is a dexterous blend of Old World endurance and New World bravado. Neither human sympathy nor nature’s bounty can fill the void left by her parents’ early deaths; the ferocious melancholy of that single-word refrain circles their absence as if to say: There is no escaping a loss this large — only endurance. Selected by Rita Dove"
"Home is the first grave"
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- Format:ebook
- Pages:1 pages
- Publication:2019
- Publisher:New York times
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- kindle Asin:B0DM419MXL
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