Of the Divining and the Dead by Saba Razvi

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“The title of Saba Syed Razvi‘s Of the Divining and the Dead, draws us into the world of the daemon and the darkness, the reach of the “Bitter Tree”, reminiscent of Plath’s terrifying yew tree, rooted in oblivion. We see through the “peacock’s moon-skilled eye” and learn, with the poet, “the speech running under my skin”. This is a book filled with night-terrors, but lit by the powerful protective beams of this extraordinary poet’s dazzling imagination.”

— Carol Muske-Dukes, author of “Twin Cities” & “Sparrow“, poet laureate of California.

 

“Saba Syed Razvi’s poems are both lithe and electric, and the compelling imagination behind this work is capable of being both capacious in its perspective yet relentless in its investigations of experience. This chapbook is riveting from beginning to end.”

— David St. John, author of “The Face” and “Study for the World’s Body“, recipient of the OB Hardison Jr Poetry Prize for excellence in art & teaching.

Rating:  ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

Saba Razvi’s Of the Divining and the Dead is timeless, sensual, and spiritually charged. Razvi’s words make haunting and riveting images come alive.

–Leah Maines, author of Beyond the River, winner of the Kentucky Writers’ Coalition Chapbook Competition (KWC Press)

 

 

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Of the Divining and the Dead

by Saba Razvi

$14, paper

Saba Syed Razvi is the author of In the Crocodile Gardens (Agape Editions), Of the Divining and the Dead (Finishing Line Press), and the forthcoming Beside the Muezzin’s Call & Beyond the Harem’s Veil (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Offending Adam, Diner, TheTHE Poetry Blog’s Infoxicated Corner, The Homestead Review, NonBinary Review, 10×3 plus, 13th Warrior Review, The Arbor Vitae Review, and Arsenic Lobster, among others, as well as in anthologies such as Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War Faith and Sexuality, The Loudest Voice Anthology, The Liddell Book of Poetry, Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity. Her poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Award, the Rhysling Award, and have won a 2015 Independent Best American Poetry Award. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Houston in Victoria, TX, where in addition to working on scholarly research on interfaces between Science and contemporary Poetry, she is studying Sufi Poetry in translation, and writing new poems and fiction. She is available for readings, roundtables on craft, guest lectures in classes, meetings with book-clubs, and microworkshops; if she can’t manage the travel in a particular case, she is available through online video-calls.

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