Woman in the Trees: Poems on Climate and Nature

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Alfaz (words) of a Nazm (poem) can offer succor in times of convalescence. A Neem that had once stood a secret to numerous betrayals, heartbreaks, longings, and loneliness, whispers something decisive with a heavy heart. Wreathing language is a mystery to which The Bird on a Pole doesn't pay any heed but longs to tell a personal thing. The House in Aligarh comes to life when you walk past it. One could distinctly hear the throbbing heart. Ecology has been generous in weaving Afsaane (stories), which the people inundate with other petty concerns. Sami Rafiq in Woman in the Trees: Poems on Climate and Nature paints a pantheistic notion with an active sense of aesthetics and uniquely distinctive style.