num_pages: 96
description: Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullahs highly anticipated second collection following her award-winning debut Seam. Faizullahs new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence war and loss into poems of many forms and voiceselegies outcries self-portraits and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination family and memory. One poem steps down the page like a Slinky; another poem responds to makeup homework completed in the summer of a childhood accident; other poems punctuate the collection with dark meditations on dissociation discipline defiance and destiny; and the near-title poem Register of Eliminated Villages suggests illuminated texts one a Quran in which the speakers name might be found and the other a register of 397 villages destroyed in northern Iraq. Faizullah is an essential new poet whose work only grows more urgent beautiful andeven in its unsparing brutalityfull of love.
language: English
title: Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems
publisher: Graywolf Press