Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets Justin Zorn Enlightening and inspiring

Enlightening and inspiring

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She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality

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Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets Justin Zorn Enlightening and inspiringFive female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war torn country and its diaspora. There are hypnotic, long beards tangled with mass extinctions; hateful men burning grapevines; black blindfolds; jinn in chadors; and condoms advertised every eight minutes on TV. Interspersing these are tender moments: one poet describes brushing her daughter's hair, while another imagines a tree growing at