The first full-length translation of work by the noted Kurdish poet and feminist. Says Christopher "How fortunate English-speaking readers are to have this selection of Ahmad's poems, expertly translated and edited by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and two Kurdish co-translators. Handful of Salt is a superb introduction to the work of an acclaimed Kurdish poet, whose chronicles of her walk in the sun mirror the complicated and tragic history of her people, in diverse forms and voices." Eve Ensler "These poems are intoxications, sensual rumblings from the core of a woman's fire, burning through homeland and body, casting off time and space, opening a new landscape, a territory beyond logic or right and wrong. These poems are revolutions of language, a bursting of feminine power. A stunning and revelatory collection of poems."
