Traveling into the impossible

"Although a very different writer and personality from Mai Ziada or Fadwa Toukan, Mona Helmy nevertheless shows a similar interest in creating a new language and new metaphors. In her poems she draws on her creative power to deepen her insight. She studied economics and politics and obtained her PhD in environmental sciences, so her feet are firmly planted on the ground and in reality, but her thoughts fly up into open space. She loves flying, yet prefers swimming in deep water. She prefers humanity to divinity. She celebrates women's freedom physically and mentally, and her chosen subject is love." From the Foreword by the wordly renowed writer , Nawal al Saadawi