Exile Sandra McPherson and poetry as a political

and poetry as a political paradigm

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and cursed by one of her rivals

the excerpt “Earthquake Nightmare” is particularly chilling

Exile Sandra McPherson and poetry as a politicalExile is a collection of short stories with the taste of a novel. The over riding theme is the sense of melancholy of those who have been alienated from their homeland, from their families or from society. By offering the reader short, vivid glimpses into other worlds; be they of real or fictional characters, Ilhan builds a patchwork of stories which highlight the lives of the dispossessed. As a woman writing in modern day Turkey, she is not afraid to