Buoyed by dry humor and compassion, these poems expose readers to a wrenching spectrum of human emotion and experience, not as recollected, but caught in the act, thus revealing poetry's power to penetrate, illuminate and hearten.
Buoyed by dry humor and compassion, these poems expose readers to a wrenching spectrum of human emotion and experience, not as recollected, but caught...
The Baraka poems are sensuous and lyrical, but they also depict real life, especially for women, in worlds where the religious-minded look to a patriarchal past for inspiration and so, naturally, these poems are about men, too, their pride, their privileges. The explicit local is Pakistan, above all, the sprawling port city of Karachi and its neighboring provinces. Sharpe asks us to confront zoom-by murders and honor killings while also bringing us the consolations offered at Sufi shrines: relief, hope, even joy. We visit the mountains, picnic on the beach and journey to Baluchistan where...
The Baraka poems are sensuous and lyrical, but they also depict real life, especially for women, in worlds where the religious-minded look to a patria...
