Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets Justin Zorn Mac will stand face-to-face with

Mac will stand face-to-face with desire

its queen has fallen and the people have turned against their king

As she grapples with her emerging abilities

She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality

Enlightening and inspiring

Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets Justin Zorn Mac will stand face-to-face withFive female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war torn country and its diaspora. There are hypnotic, long beards tangled with mass extinctions; hateful men burning grapevines; black blindfolds; jinn in chadors; and condoms advertised every eight minutes on TV. Interspersing these are tender moments: one poet describes brushing her daughter's hair, while another imagines a tree growing at