Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali Patricia Smith posing as many questions as

posing as many questions as it answers

refusing to ignore narratives treated as unspeakable and overlooked by the English canon

discovering what it means to be a young father

Harm does its thing—and if it then doubles back to do it again

tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times

Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali Patricia Smith posing as many questions asIn Theophanies, award winning poet Sarah Ghazal Ali testifies to women's capacity for piercing and musical exegesis and asks: what more might a woman's body hold after it has been hailed as a vessel for the divine? Braiding the scriptures of the Qur'an and Bible, Theophanies interlaces the spectacles of gender, faith, and family and unravels the age old idea that seeing is believing. Drawing from art and music, Pakistani history, and cultural