Author: Hoda Khamosh
Cover Design: Rafi Jasoor
Illustration: Nadia Wieszhniewska
First Edition: 2021 (Solar Hijri: 1400)
Genre: Poetry Collection
Spilled Virginity is a bold and poignant poetry collection by Hoda Khamosh, giving voice to the silenced women of Afghanistan in the darkest days of its history. This book is not merely a compilation of poems—it is a powerful narrative of pain, love, and resistance, capturing the struggle of women who fight to survive and love amid the flames of war and the suffocating darkness of fundamentalism.
Khamosh turns poetry into a weapon of truth. Beyond portraying the brutal social wounds and structural violence imposed on women, her verses reach into the intimate realm of femininity and love—depicting passion while simultaneously challenging political oppression.
This collection mirrors the grim reality of Afghanistan: a land where, alongside bombings and suicide attacks, women face barbaric acts every day—ears and noses cut off, stoning in public squares, incestuous assaults within families, and countless other atrocities hidden behind walls of silence. Spilled Virginity is a scream against this silence; a voice refusing to let the world ignore these horrors.
For readers seeking poetry born from ashes—verses that strip away illusions and lay bare the truth—this book is a call to witness, to remember, and to resist.
