In this first collection of poems, I write of my early years as a student Studying English Literature in New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia. I also record my various travels not repeated in my 2nd book of poetry (Vietnam, Pakistan, Japan and USA). My identity as a wife, mother and academic is also captured. My identity as a Muslim woman and my resistance being defined by others is evident in many of my poems here. ‘My veil, my body’ has travelled many countries and featured in many magazines/journals in the USA, Iran, Australia, etc.
Publisher: Awards Publishing, Subang Jaya. ISBN: 983-42784-0-3
Publication Year: 2006
Format/Pages/Dimensions : 123 pages/
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"Fun and enjoyable"
“A powerful and often witty collection of poems written by a Malay feminist in English and Malay.”
Penangbookshelf.com
https://penangbookshelf.com/pd-the-art-of.cfm
"Internationally published and well-accepted "
“Professor Manaf’s experience of juggling family and career was captured in her first collection of poetry The Art of Naming: A Muslim Woman’s Journey, published in 2006. Poems in the collection have since been studied at universities around the world with a focus on creating an understanding of Islam, Muslim women, and multiculturalism.”
Alumni Stories, Flinders University
https://blogs.flinders.edu.au/alumni-stories/2019/08/02/a-muslim-womans-journey-to-lead/
""Raising the issue of world nowadays to feminists" "Reveals the deep voice of a Muslim woman" "
“Half in English, half in Bahasa Malaysia, this little book of poetry, with an introduction by Susan Sheridan praising the author’s feminist credentials, confirms our first impression that this is a very important document in a world filled with fanaticism, hatred and ignorance.” “There is nothing political in Nor Faridah’s poems. They are about herself, her family, her friends, about being a foreign student in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, about getting married, having children, and pursuing a career, about thinking, feeling, loving and being in the world. They are also poems about poems and other literary experiences. But they are not simplistic and nice, sweet or sentimental;rather they are disarmingly brief, cutting, to the point because being in the world for anyone, especially a Muslim woman in the early twenty-first century, is no easy or light matter”
Dr Norman Simm, University of Waikato, New Zealand
"Real and personally based yet enjoyable"
“It's a really interesting book. It's a selection of poems written by her 'bout her journey of life. … it's very fun to read since it's written in an easy way so that everyone can relate to it.”
Nik Nor Zafirah
""A sharing over a Muslim feminist journey" "An honest feminist view in this unpredictable world " "
“Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf presented examples of poems which address the vacuum felt by the modern poet trying to locate his own identity as a person living in a borderless world.” “Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf’s collection of poems demonstrate the way writing can take new and unpredictable shapes as women articulate experiences and perceptions that have been conventionally hidden and forbidden in patriarchal cultures
Rosana Derain-Lucero In Search Of Identities: Analysis Of The Contemporary Poems Of Selected Countries In Southeast Asia, SELAMS Works blog site (Centro Escolar University-School of Education-Liberal Arts-Music-Social Work)
https://selams.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/in-search-of-identities-analysis-of-the-contemporary-poems-of-selected-countries-in-southeast-asia/
"Full with honesty yet fun to read"
“I like the poems in there very much. I like the style of writing too. Simple, lucid, articulate and unpretentious."
Jauhar Kalam
http://jauharkalam.blogspot.com/2009/12/nor-faridahs-art-of-naming.html