Elegies of the Earth Wadih Saadeh

Elegies of the Earth Wadih SaadehAhmad Shamlou (trans. Niloufar Talebi) A sweeping centennial edition of Irans iconic twentieth century poet of liberty, whose work shaped modern Persian poetry. Known for his political engagement and deep humanism, and his pivotal role in Persian poetrys modernist turn toward free verse, Ahmad Shamlou (19252000) crafted poems that carried both lyrical intimacy and cultural force. A central, defiant voice in Irans modern literary history, Shamlou

’ the speaker keeps community with the dead: ‘I embrace you to my chest / You embrace me into your soul / I carry your soul

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the moans of elk

they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime

revealing its vital energy and experimental drive through the poems Heliczer published in magazines and periodicals between 1959 and 1979

If you have no core of “authenticity

Alisha Mascarenhas’s A Catalogue of Risk is a volte-face of the neoliberal market economy’s construction of isolated

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Prins is in zijn teksten een uitstekend waarnemer en verslaglegger

Darling reminds us that between the beer and a cigarette there’s always a moment to genuflect on the street

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What arrangements exist between a mother and child