Publisher's Synopsis
Farideh has always felt the need to break free from traditional forms in verse, a principle which she has carried into her English poetry. This does not mean to say there is no structure in her writing but a control which fits her subject and the mood of her current work. This gives her a freedom to convey the strength of her feeling. As she says, 'Love is the voice of departure' and so they are often of loss, leaving, displacement and uncertainty but struck too with shafts of happiness. All artists and writers draw from their experiences of life when creating in their chosen medium. The experience of exile, it seems to me, is the lens which often diffuses Farideh's expressions of life and love. These are poems of passion and feeling, whether personal or imagined, they carry the truth which many have experienced and give an insight for others into lives which they have not lived but experience through the reading of Farideh's first collection.
