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Bleeding Light
by Sheniz Janmohamed |
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Poetry/Ghazals
Paperback ISBN: 9781894770637
Price:
$17.95
Epub ISBN: 9781927494141
Price: $9.99
64 pages
Publication Date:
September 15, 2010
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Bleeding Light is a collection of poems in ghazal form
that traces the steps of a woman’s journey through night. She
knows that in order to witness dawn, she has to travel through
dusk first. Throughout her journey, she is caught between West
and East, religion and heresy, love and anti-love, darkness and
the knowledge of light. Each couplet is an independent thought
and reflection, a pearl strung into a necklace. Bleeding
Light is fraught with opposing, stark and often violent
imagery heavily influenced by Sufi philosophy.
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"Sheniz Janmohamed is
one of a very few new poets who has mastered the form of the
ghazal in a way that brings together the emotional aspects of
the form and the expectations of the listeners who know the form
and its cultural unity: mystic illumination, rhyme, refrains
that exude passion, and couplets with wise insights. The
couplets in her eloquent and appealing ghazals dazzle one with
their precision, sudden turns and brilliant use of the cultural
memory of language and imagery."
—The late Dr. Kuldip Gill (Professor, Poet and Mentor)
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Sheniz Janmohamed is
a spoken word artist and freelance writer. A graduate of the MFA
in Creative Writing Program at the University of Guelph, she is
the founder of Ignite Poets, an initiative that allows young poets
to work together for peace.
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Listen:
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