BLEEDING LIGHT, by SHENIZ JANMOHAMED - Tia Virdi's Choice

Bleeding Light Book Launch happened on September 24th, 2010 Photo by Jeremiah Hill

Bleeding Light is a collection of ghazals tracing the steps of a woman’s journey through night. In order to witness dawn, she must travel through dusk first. Throughout her journey, she is caught between West and East, religion and heresy, love and anti-love, darkness and the knowledge of light. Each couplet of a ghazal is an independent thought and reflection, a pearl strung into a necklace. Bleeding Light is fraught with opposing, stark, and often violent imagery heavily influenced by Sufi philosophy.

-StarBuzz weekly, Toronto