My Country's Hair Turned White by Dilawar Karadaghi, ed. and trans. by Jiyar Homer and trans. by Mike Baynham women poets all from Shearsman

all from Shearsman

She rides a beautiful orange wheelchair at obnoxiously high speed and lives with her husband

Cavalcanti

meditations on the world and our place in it

— Deanna Rodger

My Country's Hair Turned White by Dilawar Karadaghi, ed. and trans. by Jiyar Homer and trans. by Mike Baynham women poets all from ShearsmanDilawar Karadaghi is one of the most important contemporary Kurdish poets and his work is marked by the long years of persecution, marginalization and struggle that are part of the Kurdish experience. The poems in this short selection are full of longing, sadness, loss and, in the final poem, anger, as the poet remembers the devastating chemical attack on Halabja in 1988 in which his countrys hair turned white.