If I Had the Wings Mohammed al-Asfar a poetry at once intimate

a poetry at once intimate and universal

"The critic and poet Maurice Harmon is one of the most gracious figures on the scene

in which the past comes up hard against the present

He has co-edited several Macmillan anthologies

a world that is uncompromising

If I Had the Wings Mohammed al-Asfar a poetry at once intimateTo 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