The Origin of Wounds exhumes fragments of historical accounts that bring us face-to-face with the brutality of national and global wars. Malik's pivotal poems address personal and global grief through the loss of homeland, and the continuous search for a sanctuary.
In poems that startle and astonish, Malik shows the excruciating lives of children in war-torn homelands, while also guiding us through diaries of war notes and archives of forgotten wounds.
He renders powerfully the experiences of the displaced, the migrants on boats leaving homeland to an imagined promised land. He examines the wounds of displacement, the wounds of migrants, of ancestors on slave ships and dreams buried in the dark of war. Malik reminds us through his poems that we must pay attention to the wounds carried from the past to the present, and we must also do everything possible to save the children from a world fraught with monumental tragedies.
It is Baby's birthday, but Grace has not seen her first born in twenty-six years. Now a wife, mother to twin daughters and the owner of a successful m..
In a country caught between the weight of its contradictions, three lives circle one another—each grappling with what it means to belong, to endure, t..
