A Cry on the Shores of Yearning

About this book

This is no mere poetry collection, but eight resounding screams that slipped from the depths of the wounded self of poet Halima El-Mujahid, to forge a map of survival from the soul's maze. It is a harsh and luminous journey together, beginning from "the scream of fracture" dripping pain like wounds that cannot be stitched, to reach the peak of optimism in "the scream of hope" and the hills of joy. El-Mujahid takes us through condensed texts and a beautiful language of displacement into worlds of "bewilderment" and loss, where identity dissolves in the crowd of burning questions. But she does not stop at the limits of weeping over ruins; she rouses "the scream of resistance," affirming that the tree defying the wind endures longest, and that the star, even if extinguished, will choose to rise anew. It is a deep philosophy believing that the way out of bewilderment is not by jumping from the ship, but by facing the current with steady, measured steps. On every page, the dualities of pain and hope, ache and healing, intertwine in a beautiful artistic mold. Here the poet spins from yearning a homeland without constraints, and uses words as swords with which she stabs "the tongues of the mob" pouring poison into the cups of truth. It is a collection for whoever swore to himself to plant joy in fields the winds swept away, and to light a candle until the moon wanes. It is the echo of a lost dream, but an echo keeping hope's thread clinging to the soul. A book proving that nights, however dark they grow, rivers must invade with their light and radiance, and that truth will rise from the ashes. This collection is not for passing reading; it is a mirror in which every soul that resisted fracture contemplates.