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the effect is an alluring haze, enchanting but precarious, and one must squint to decipher the hints that all is not well with the speakers.
Lyrical and imposing, Sadre-Orafai’s work challenges us to consider what and who we overlook, what the earth is saying, and whether or not we’re really listening. The collection asks, a vacation? and then dismantles the entire notion.
it’s told with the delicacy of a memory of a distant fever dream.
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
there is no way one can literally navigate the waters of reminiscence, loss and nostalgia the way jenny sadre-orafai does in her collection dear outsiders.
Many of the poems in this collection shift the nature of reality. Humans become animals become human. The speaker has found a way to create a world that behaves how she wants.
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The spells in Book of Levitations are grounded in the tangible and ordinary, a recurring narrative thread of everyday objects that include baby teeth, chandeliers, saltwater, and flames. The ensuing imagery is both startling and memorable, a vivid depiction of the power of witchcraft to both enchant and repel.unexpected and the charmed.
The poems in this book often read like rituals or invitations. They may or may not offer solutions, but at the core of each of them are words that deliver a strong message, one that’s loud and clear if you’re willing to listen.
Malak is a work of intimate and intricate craft.
Malak creates a new language that helps us understand the metaphysical, the things we cannot see. Sometimes we don’t know who is alive and who isn’t and it sort of doesn’t matter.
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Sadre-Orafai refuses a masculine mode. She hovers between the horror of the home and the horror of opening the home to our eyes; she keeps her power by choosing neither.
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In those crisp, taut poems, Sadre-Orafai turns the familiar thematic of love and loss into an effervescent meditation on how each individual mind apprehends the world, on how each heart learns of its own intimate path to whatever it is that compels it to go on, and on.
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