"To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed.
The idea of disease as punishment drives this collection\'s.
In the Qur\'an, as in the Bible, the Flood was sent as punishment.
Physicians referred to this bleeding as flooding.
Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma." --Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop.
In Deluge ... "To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed