Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal
relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant
push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and
the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society and as
survivors of political violence. The book's central sequence,
Anfal, draws on Choman Hardi's post-doctoral research on women
survivors of genocide in Kurdistan. The stories of eleven survivors
(nine women, an elderly man and a boy child) are framed by the
radically shifting voice of the researcher: naive and
matter-of-fact at the start; grieved, abstracted and confused by
the end. Knowledge has a noxious effect in this book, destroying
the poet's earlier optimistic sense of self and replacing it with a
darker identity where she is ready for 'all the good people in the
world to disappoint her'. Choman Hardi's second collection in
English ends with a new beginning found in new love and in taking
time off from the journey of traumatic discovery to enjoy the
small, ordinary things of life. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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