โ Scribed by Zehra Naqvi
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
For readers of Fatimah Asghar 's If They Come for Us , here is a searing, multidimensional debut about the search for language and self, which is life itself.
I knew it was time to build what could carry, what could find the high point
to name what I knew to be the world and carry it with me
At the heart of The Knot of My Tongue is Zehra Naqvi's storying of language itself and the self-re-visioning that follows devastating personal rupture. Employing a variety of poetic forms, these intimate, searching poems address generations, continents, and dominions to examine loss of expression in the aftermath of collisions with powerful forces, ranging from histories to intimacies.
Naqvi follows a cast of characters from personal memory, family history, and Quranic traditions, at instances where they have either been rendered silent or found ways to attempt the inexpressible--a father struggling to speak as an immigrant in...
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