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Forty Names

ISBN-13: 9781800171077
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Parwana Fayyaz
Price: AUD $27.99
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Local release date: 27/09/2021
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 127g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: Debut collection recalling the lives, experiences, and bravery of women in Afghanistan, which includes the 2019 Forward Prize-winning poem Forty Names. In this remarkable first collection, Parwana Fayyaz evokes events in the lives of Afghan women, past and present - their endurance and achievements, told from their points of view. John McAuliffe writes of the remarkable litanies, which haunt her poems occasions and the title poem, with which she won the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, is such a litany, conjuring and commemorating. The poems are not judgmental: they witness. The reader infers the contexts. As well as the human stories there is a spectacular landscape, unfamiliar villages and cities, and a rich history which the Western press in reporting contemporary news foreshortens and diminishes. Storytelling has a long tradition in Afghan culture. Stories are passed down orally. Every woman even or especially those who are illiterate knows and has memorized a few important stories - to share [...] I grew up among women who never went to school - my grandmothers, my mother, my aunts. As the poet grew away from that tradition, in which patience was the chief virtue, she lost patience and began her resistance, their resistance, in her poems which hover between cultures and languages, thinking in one and understanding in another. Each language has its history and value systems: it was learning English that gave me my voice as a poet, enabling me to distance myself as well as to comprehend the connection with the tradition I was brought up in.; Parwana Fayyaz was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1990. From the age of seven to sixteen, she was raised in Quetta, Pakistan. After finishing high school in Kabul, she enrolled in an English language immersion program and subsequently began her undergraduate studies in Chittagong, Bangladesh. She transferred to Stanford University and earned both her B.A. in 2015, with a major in Comparative Literature (with Honors) and a minor in Creative Writing (Poetry). She moved to Cambridge University to pursue a PhD in Persian Studies at Trinity College in September of 2016 and took up Junior Research Fellowship as the Carmen Blacker Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge University in October 2020.; reminded us of the profound act of witness that poetry can be - Shahida Bari, Forward Prize Judge on Forty Names; Google Preview content