Synopsis
A brand new collection of poems by California based poet and artist Salma Arastu that will resonate with people of all walks of life. Foreword by Prof. Amritjit Singh.
Early praise:
"Salma Arastu’s words are a magic incantation, calling us to our highest human goodness. Her poetry is a healing balm, evoking radical, universal compassion and understanding, even as she helps us to grieve all the division, hatred and loss that has beset our poor, churning world. “Yes, I reimagine this broken world,” she says. With the “two wings of trust and hope,” she entreats us to see ourselves in the eyes of the other, to mend the broken threads of our shared human tapestry, and to repair our ailing world. She is an ecstatic Sufi poet, overflowing with unbounded delight and gratitude for sky, trees, breeze, birds, flowing waters. She speaks to each of us as “Friend,” inviting us back into a covenant of love with each other and with our beloved Earth." —Kitty Costello, author of Upon Waking, and co-editor of Muslim American Writers at Home: Stories, Essay and Poems of Identity, Diversity and Belonging
"Salma Arastu’s elegant and heartfelt poems bring us deep into existential questions of current human rights disasters—and challenge us with the choice of love. Her poems spiral upward, beyond divisive egos, through nature to a oneness so divine. Open this book in times of healing, relief, and reflection—it opens a place inside you from which can come conscious action." — Sharon Coleman, MFA Poetics, Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing.
"This insightful book of poetry reads like Salma’s paintings view: interconnected strands of a common cloth: the cloth of humanity. Her depth of vision and her immense compassion is interwoven within each poem, and all poems are stitched together within the collection, weaving a tapestry that, from every side and every corner calls upon humanity’s best qualities to resist self-annihilation and destruction. It provides a luminary to softly envelop and encourage an emergence above the discord. It is a harmonious shrouding of united sanity beyond the maladies threatening humanity’s existence." - Hanaa Walzer & Laila Hasib from “Voices in Solidarity with the People of Gaza,” Inked Resistance Islamic Publishing, 2024.
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