On Translating Athena Farrokhzad

Nonfiction
By: | September 23, 2013

[W]e are presented with a rigorously poetic exploration of migration, trauma, and intimacy, and although it may be seen as a document of a particular (immigrant) experience, Vitsvit is… More

Vitsvit

Poetry
By: | September 23, 2013

My mother let bleach run through her syntax / On the other side of punctuation her language became whiter / than a winter in Norrland... // To think that… More

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