‘The Look’ is a collection of 43 free verse poems, which deconstruct and redefine quite a number of our everyday words in such a subtly poetic, moving and delicate way through the poet’s unique perspective and personal attitude towards the concepts of love, pain, motherland and man/womanhood in human language. In this comprehensive collection, Nahid A. Musawi attempts to review the essence of each and every common word from her own linguistic viewpoint combined with an air of universal human concerns. And that is precisely what makes ‘The Look’ an intriguing exploration of the poet’s mind throughout the realm of words.
