Description

In Theophanies, award-winning poet Sarah Ghazal Ali testifies to women’s capacity for piercing and musical exegesis and asks: what more might a womans body hold after it has been hailed as a vessel for the divine? Braiding the scriptures of the Quran 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 inheritance, these poems speak back against eons to the matriarchs of the Abrahamic faiths, the mothers at the heart of sacred history.