Stones Hold Water

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Poetry. South Asian Studies. The meeting of times a secret basement press the beauty of Urdu a broken god the Buddhas of Bamiyan a woman's riotous tresses are some of the lush images that weave the rich and complex tapestry of poems in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stones Hold Water.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The female speaker rejoices in her Indus Valley heritage even as she repines in poems of heartbreak and religious extremism. These poems traverse a landscape of love and loss bringing the past to our present expressing unfathomable grief and abiding self-discovery through lyrical storytelling. We find portals - through the melding of language and lore - to spaces redolent with the sights sounds smells of Pakistan. Spaces that inspire fear and courage connection and contention.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>