Registers of illuminated villages : poems / Tarfia Faizullah.

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 voices elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Poems. Selections
Main Author: Faizullah, Tarfia (Author)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
American poetry.
2000-2099
Poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:96 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Register of eliminated villages
  • The hidden register of hunger
  • Self-portrait as mango
  • Acolyte
  • Your own country
  • The sacrifice
  • IV and make-up homework
  • West Texas nocturne
  • The performance of no one's fingers
  • Djinn in need of a bitch
  • Feast or famine
  • Before the accident, and after
  • 100 bells
  • The hidden register of submission
  • Self-portrait as slinky
  • What this elegy wants
  • To the Bangladeshi cab driver in San Francisco
  • To the littlest brother
  • Soliloquies from the village of orphans and widows
  • You own palm
  • Consider the hands once smaller
  • Dark pairing
  • Poetry recitation at St. Catherine's school for girls
  • Sex or sleep or silk
  • Great material
  • You ask why write about it again
  • The hidden register of solace
  • Self-portrait as Artemis
  • The distance between fire and stone
  • The error of echo
  • The doors to Trinity
  • Diary
  • Apology from a Muslim orphan
  • Searchlight payar
  • Aubade with sage and lemon
  • Because there's still a sky, junebug
  • I told the water
  • Mother
  • Variations on a cemetery in summer
  • ... but you can't stay here
  • Fable of the firstborn
  • Notes.