Feast of the Ass Toxicon and Arachne

Feast of the Ass Toxicon and ArachneJahan Khajavi Drawing extensively on Iranian poetic traditions and the history of their reception in English translation, Feast of the Ass presents a series of verses that play in the fields of love poetrys address. Khajavi irreverently ruffles the classical grandeur & quiet dignity of inherited forms in order to consider the poets relationship to death, literature, race, religion, and sexuality, his queer shoulder set not to the wheelso long,

De stad keert zich tegen haar

who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world

Val Vinokur

In Toxicon and Arachne

to be thus transformed

Er zwermt iets van de tijdgeest door deze rijke en aantrekkelijke bundel

it is meant to be read for plot

ze verklaart haar liefde aan Berlijn (‘spuuglelijkste stad’)

strafregels (2020) als meest recente uiting van zijn virtuoze dichterschap

Born in Murcia in 1165

all love letter

je hoort het liedje van de vinken