Holes in the White Robe

About this book

Between the robe's whiteness and the soul's expanse lie distances of pain only understood by one accustomed to leaping between waves like a fish, or one who learned the art of sleeping with two wide-open eyes like a wolf guarding his dream. "Holes in the White Robe" is no mere literary texts, but a public confession of the shards war and love alike leave in our consciousness; those scars we try to conceal behind a robe of composure, only to realize in the end those holes were never a flaw in our whiteness, but the only windows that let light pass into our inner darkness. Writer Dr. Kifah El-Ghaseen moves in this work between wondrous worlds; at times we see her an Andalusian maid kneeling at dignity's thresholds, at times a cat watching the world with alabaster claws, and at times a daughter of the wild searching her mother's wrinkles for a map of pain. She does not write words, but carves them with an old clockmaker's patience and a physicist's precision, presenting ink creatures resembling us in our fracture and our loftiness. It is a book for those worn out by the march.