Liberty Walks Naked: Poems

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In this new collection of poems, Maram al-Masri offers herself as witness on behalf of her suffering people, speaking for those who can no longer speak, articulating with and for them the passion for liberty that is the driving force of their struggle for justice. Here is a profound, heart-wrenching lament for all victims of that terrible war, for all the numberless maimed and dead."Masri's poetry vividly encapsulates the frailty of our human condition in a brutal society. It can flay you at first reading. It is fair to see Masri as a love poet whose verse spares no truth of love's joys and mercilessness, to whose work war then came, as it tore her native Syria apart, and overwhelmed it, and her." - Ed Vulliamy, THE GUARDIAN