My Country's Hair Turned White by Dilawar Karadaghi, ed. and trans. by Jiyar Homer and trans. by Mike Baynham women poets and finally a redemptive art

and finally a redemptive art

Cavalcanti

meditations on the world and our place in it

and the irreconcilable rifts – between lover and beloved

My Country's Hair Turned White by Dilawar Karadaghi, ed. and trans. by Jiyar Homer and trans. by Mike Baynham women poets and finally a redemptive artDilawar 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.