The Woman Who Was Not There David Douglas A vivid attempt to come

A vivid attempt to come to terms with the pain of immigrant experience”

David Hook

but the war and then the death of his father forced him to leave without completing his degree

originally in Farsi

The Woman Who Was Not There David Douglas A vivid attempt to comeThis is a book of dangerous poetry. It is a book that should not be left unsupervised or with the cover left open while you sleep. Inside are tales of women who eat themselves, mothers who collect clouds in small bottles, children who live beneath beds, poets who stand on top of tower blocks and girls who find wings and fly across a landscape of abandoned council estates, the ghosts of gangs spraying graffiti poetry. It is a book about beauty in ugly