If I Had the Wings Christine Harrison Excerpt from Mr Ma‘ruf’s Woes

Excerpt from Mr Ma‘ruf’s Woes [Alaam al-Sayyid Ma‘ruf]

A legend persists that

where defeat is a regular verb

Those poems that are set in England are almost wholly defined by Jamaican absences

If I Had the Wings Christine Harrison Excerpt from Mr Ma‘ruf’s WoesTo be gay and growing up in the small Greek Bahamian community, which feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat, is fraught with constraints and even danger. The main characters in Helen Klonariss poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Yet there are also ways in which young women in several of the stories search for roots in that tradition to