Fairoz
eBook - ePub

Fairoz

  1. 93 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented, collaging narrative draws together fairytale elements, glimpses of Fairoz's thoughts, and pieces of dialogue. A folkloric representation of God and the devil acts as a wry counterpoint, touching on questions of morality. Fairoz is a powerful portrayal of human vulnerability.

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Table of contents

  1. Description
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Driving the devil away
  5. In the present tense
  6. Indoors
  7. Hair
  8. What do you do with a heap of stones?
  9. ‘It was a house of female habitation’
  10. Questions in the wood
  11. The Devil and the gleams
  12. The Devil’s soup
  13. The white cat
  14. Not enchantment
  15. In the morning
  16. Home
  17. Fairoz and Annat
  18. As summer
  19. School lunchtimes
  20. Listening to Fairoz and Tahir
  21. Pilgrims
  22. Does the Devil know what he is?
  23. The notice
  24. When they meet
  25. A story of God and the Devil
  26. Ripe
  27. Wolves-of-the-woods
  28. What runs under her skin
  29. She pictures Jannah
  30. Absent and present
  31. Her absences
  32. ‘where the swarm is thickest’
  33. The dark patch
  34. The plants
  35. It was long ago
  36. A conversation
  37. A punch
  38. Ice age
  39. He’s ‘v v sorry’
  40. The short long story
  41. The loping wolf
  42. A tale reduced to a sliver
  43. God’s eyelids
  44. This woman will speak to you, he says
  45. The bride
  46. Gone
  47. A task
  48. The Viewing
  49. He was
  50. The contest
  51. A change
  52. Classroom scorpions
  53. Cherry stones
  54. Who’s there?
  55. DANGER
  56. The eye
  57. She’s heard nothing from Tahir
  58. Call him three times
  59. What’s real?
  60. The Devil’s news
  61. Witnesses
  62. In the snow
  63. Her whole life
  64. Urgent question
  65. Like a mark on her kameez
  66. What she’d like to say
  67. The room in her mind’s eye
  68. The woods
  69. Cold song
  70. Her future
  71. ‘Over every soul there is a watcher’
  72. My imagined Fairoz
  73. Notes and Acknowledgements
  74. About the Author
  75. Copyright