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Fairoz
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
- Description
- Title Page
- Contents
- Driving the devil away
- In the present tense
- Indoors
- Hair
- What do you do with a heap of stones?
- ‘It was a house of female habitation’
- Questions in the wood
- The Devil and the gleams
- The Devil’s soup
- The white cat
- Not enchantment
- In the morning
- Home
- Fairoz and Annat
- As summer
- School lunchtimes
- Listening to Fairoz and Tahir
- Pilgrims
- Does the Devil know what he is?
- The notice
- When they meet
- A story of God and the Devil
- Ripe
- Wolves-of-the-woods
- What runs under her skin
- She pictures Jannah
- Absent and present
- Her absences
- ‘where the swarm is thickest’
- The dark patch
- The plants
- It was long ago
- A conversation
- A punch
- Ice age
- He’s ‘v v sorry’
- The short long story
- The loping wolf
- A tale reduced to a sliver
- God’s eyelids
- This woman will speak to you, he says
- The bride
- Gone
- A task
- The Viewing
- He was
- The contest
- A change
- Classroom scorpions
- Cherry stones
- Who’s there?
- DANGER
- The eye
- She’s heard nothing from Tahir
- Call him three times
- What’s real?
- The Devil’s news
- Witnesses
- In the snow
- Her whole life
- Urgent question
- Like a mark on her kameez
- What she’d like to say
- The room in her mind’s eye
- The woods
- Cold song
- Her future
- ‘Over every soul there is a watcher’
- My imagined Fairoz
- Notes and Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright
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