Foxfire

I’ve been reading ‘Foxfire: A Book Of Poems’ by Zufishan Rahman lately. The book is a unique collection of modern prose, ghazal style poetry, free verses, sonnets and micropoetry expressing millennial women’s voice, identity, faith, feminism and mostly amplifying the screech of the present day Indian Muslim whose patriotism and innocence is brandished everyday for the fault of his/her name and clothing.

Most of the poems closes with enjambment bringing that perfectly imperfect beat to make you realise of the emotional outrage in the poems, many find this style of poetry unpoetic but I liked it here. The cover art is fabulous😘

The poems I loved are ‘Blinkers’,’ Bridge’, #NotInMyName , ‘Pigment’, ‘Women Who Uplift Women’, ‘ A Letter To An Obscure City’ and ‘Kintsugi’.

“With Kalma on my lips,

I pray to Allah to put off this communal flame,

And all I can say,  Not in my name.”

If you love reading books on these kinds of topics, you would definitely love and understand the message of the poetess

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