Seam

by Tarfia Faizullah

Book Overview

The poems in this captivating collection weave beauty with violence, the personal with the historic as they recount the harrowing experiences of the two hundred thousand female victims of rape and torture at the hands of the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation War. As the child of Bangladeshi immigrants, the poet in turn explores her own losses. Moving from West Texas to Dubai, from Virginia to remote villages in Bangladesh and back again,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809333252
• ISBN13: 9780809333257
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"