Registers of Illuminated Villages
Tarfia Faizullah
Graywolf Press
<p><b>"Tarfia Faizullah is a poet of brave and unflinching vision." &#8212;Natasha Trethewey</b><i></i><br><i></i><br><i>Somebody is always singing. Songs</i><br><i>were not allowed. Mother said,</i><br><i>Dance and the bells will sing with you.</i><br><i>I slithered. Glass beneath my feet. I</i><br><i>locked the door. I did not</i><br><i>die. I shaved my head. Until the horns</i><br><i>I knew were there were visible.</i><br><i>Until the doorknob went silent. </i></p><p>&#8212;from "100 Bells"</p><p><i>Registers of Illuminated Villages</i> is Tarfia Faizullah's highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, <i>Seam</i>. Faizullah's new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices&#8212;elegies, 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...</br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></p>