Tremble Rough Song self-deception

self-deception

J'ssica Pujol Duran

Editor Christopher Reid draws from both public and private archives to reveal this story in the poet's own words

Modern Poetry

Anna Enquist en Leonard Nolens –

Tremble Rough Song self-deceptionFatema Abdoolcarim Tremble, Fatema Abdoolcarims debut collection of poems, is an intimate and involving sequence on fertility and faith. A memoir in verse, these poems relate encounters with the animal other, the uncertain, but always echoing the tender rituals of family, food, prayer. Abdoolcarim thinks through what it means to care and to mother at a time where atrocity makes those systems of loving seem out of reach. Tremble traces the sensual and