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rob mclennan on Revolutions

Revolutions, the debut poetry collection by Hajer Mirwali is included on rob mclennan’s list of recommended books in this article on 49th Shelf.

Of Revolutions, mclennan says “this collections weaves and interleaves such wonderful structural variety, offering a myriad of threads that swirl around a collision of cultures … [Mirwali] writes of multiple points of departure and relationships to people, to individuals, to geographies and geopolitical crises; she writes of home, of hearth. She writes of the contradictions of where the heart may go and how one connects to the world, seeking solace and urgency, a connection to where part of her might always remain.”