Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali Tishani Doshi and the long work of

and the long work of grieving which culminates in the title poem

part collage

but more formally experimental

a heady mix of eroticism

Stein Mehren

Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali Tishani Doshi and the long work ofIn 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