The Bow Barbie Chang Only at the end of

Only at the end of the twentieth century could a writer create this compelling combination of experience and imagination

and sexual pleasure

geographies

as well as to disparities of class and race

The Bow Barbie Chang Only at the end ofMira Mattar "The Bow is a collection steeped in the pains and pleasures of impermanence. Mattars densely populated poems lyrically dart between entangled histories and contested presents, immersing the reader in the fleshy undercurrent of contemporary life. Writhing with sensitivity and tumult, this is a work of slippery power." Momtaza Mehri "Taking on false conceptions of mistaking a walled garden for the world, Mira Mattar proves the always new and