From Internet Book Watch

 Under  the able editorship of Nathaie HandaI, The poetry Of Arab Women: A Contempoary Anthology stands as a monument to the maniford literary of Arab women as poets and wordsmiths evoking  and rhythms of language born of their experience, art, and imagination.  Of special note is the lengthy introduction followed by representative selections from more than 80 Arab women of diverse backgrounds and life experiences. The Blind Goddess: And the blind goddess, when we touched her/like a twinkling of the eye./On the dry shore her hurried gait…/And in her face when sun and moon quarreled,/and in her step when the sea pecked a drop of life/the water receded—having become pregnant—for a time./How can the letter be Seeing, Omnipotent…/a peer to be bleated, jealous god./And in the blind goddess when she dimmed/and the earth came to be/and it was the insolence of the ages.
(Fadhila Chabbi).