Reviews - January 2024

Secure that delicate passage

On Hajar Hussaini’s ‘Disbound’

Before the first poem of Afghan poet Hajar Hussaini’s debut collection Disbound, Hussaini already resists the limits of the book’s form, positioning her text in a conflict between sequence and chaos, what is threaded together and what imminently, and presently, comes apart.

Disbound
Hajar Hussaini

University of Iowa Press, 2022, 77 pages, $19.95, ISBN 9781609388676