I knew Homa when she was a graduate student at Cornell
University. She is a talented person,
and could have easily become a professional writer (she is an economist).
A Long Drawn Face
showcases her gifts. She presents
original themes in all her poems, but most form a singular thread. One is the female voice. In “Two Women” she writes of a character who
would “sooner / choke than go without words.”
In “The Letter Aitch” she writes “we lose a foundational piece of our
souls when we pigeonhole our mouths.” In
“String and Bow” “untuned words came out of you / and instead of disbanding
into white noise / they condensed in me / like a leaky faucet”
Homa provides a range of voices in this collection that are
fresh and clear. Each poem contains a
vital message about communication, understanding, and language.
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