Mona Arshi
Praise for Mouth
'Delicately lethal; sharp-eyed and tender; Arshi's poems speak with devastating tongues of the truths and injustices that the world would rather we did not hear, in a voice as nuanced and contemporary as i ...
Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young
'Some truths are hard to speak and even harder to discern. These rich and varied verses reveal truths that were there all along, uttered by women millennia ago, but waiting for the acuteness of Mona ...
Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
‘A beautiful, generous and empathetic collection, MOUTH is Mona's best yet: both personal and political, soulful and sensual, it gives such an interesting feeling of searching and remembering the past. ...
Bidisha, author of Asylum and Exile
'Delicately lethal; sharp-eyed and tender; Arshi's poems speak with devastating tongues of the truths and injustices that the world would rather we did not hear, in a voice as nuanced and contemporary as i ...
Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young
'Some truths are hard to speak and even harder to discern. These rich and varied verses reveal truths that were there all along, uttered by women millennia ago, but waiting for the acuteness of Mona ...
Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
‘A beautiful, generous and empathetic collection, MOUTH is Mona's best yet: both personal and political, soulful and sensual, it gives such an interesting feeling of searching and remembering the past. ...
Bidisha, author of Asylum and Exile
'Delicately lethal; sharp-eyed and tender; Arshi's poems speak with devastating tongues of the truths and injustices that the world would rather we did not hear, in a voice as nuanced and contemporary as i ...
Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young
'Some truths are hard to speak and even harder to discern. These rich and varied verses reveal truths that were there all along, uttered by women millennia ago, but waiting for the acuteness of Mona ...
Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
‘A beautiful, generous and empathetic collection, MOUTH is Mona's best yet: both personal and political, soulful and sensual, it gives such an interesting feeling of searching and remembering the past. ...
Bidisha, author of Asylum and Exile