Something Missing From This World

Contemporary Yazidi PoetryEdited by Zêdan Xelef, Bryar Bajalan, Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and Shook Publication Date: September 3rd, 2024 A bold, multilingual anthology of Yazidi poetic voices.  Paperback ISBN: 9781646053476eBook ISBN: 9781646053599 Description Ten years have passed since 2014 and the seventy-fourth genocide of the Yazidis, a people who have faced ongoing persecution, displacement, and ethnic cleansing from their ancestral lands in the Kurdish regions. In the wake of this genocidal violence, new poetic voices have emerged in university campuses and IDP camps along the borders of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey, as well as from across the Yazidi diaspora. With globalizing forces compounding the erasure of their culture and traditions, the Yazidi poets in this multilingual anthology firmly stand their ground, their art a testament to Yazidi resistance and presence. This anthology joins in the poetic tradition of the Yazidis, which has historically preserved and documented in