Heartwarming poems from award-winning Iranian and Afghan women poets living in exile. Different voices speak of love, desire, freedom, personal trauma, war, torture, imprisonment, or longing for home. But they chant mainly about life. An ode to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, and in memory of Jina Mahsa Amini.
In this anthology, ten women poets from Iran and Afghanistan share their ideas, emotions, desires and worldviews with lovers of poetry, in celebration of life and freedom. The book is an ode to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, and in memory of Jina Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish young woman who was brutally murdered by the Iranian regime''s ''morality police'' in September 2022. Featuring poems by: Azita Ghahraman; Ava Homa; Ziba Karbassi; Soheila Mirzaei; Sana Nassari; Nasrin Parvaz; Mehrangiz Rassapour (M. Pegah); Shirin Razavian; Muzhgan Saghar Schaffa; and Rouhi Shafii. With an introduction about the events and the role of literature in resistance movements by Shahrzad Mojab, professor of Women and Gender Studies at University of Toronto.
