![]() Heliophobia, a collection of poems, opens with a Nereid on the verge of death, closes somewhere between the orgiastic rapture of a rave and an ecstatic experience of midnight meditation, and pivots on conflicting cultural perspectives – one embracing in revelry the tangible darkness of the night and the other racing in fear from beneath its shadow toward the light. ~ Leah Maines, Publisher, Finishing Line Press The poems follow Nereid on the verge of death “stretched too thin, high / and pushed higher, carrying / in offering this disk of pearl” to the Muse ( for Anais Nin) whose “feet touch down as fallen eyes / drop, shatter with each step & leave / the icicle sound of blue glass, / laughter hanging the fog behind shadows.” Syed Razvi gives a unique picture of the beauty among the wreckage through these thoughtfully honed poems. ![]() These deftly written poems are a bold combination of freedom and constraint. ![]() Saba Syed Razvi offers her readers a mature, altogether consummate collection in heliophobia. ![]()
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