Strangers in Light Coats Magical Negro

Strangers in Light Coats Magical NegroGhassan Zaqtan Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of the most important poets writing in Arabic. Since the publication of his first collection in 1980, Zaqtan's presence as a poet has evolved with the same branching and cumulative complexity as his poems an invisible system of roots insistently pushing through the impacted soil of political and national narratives. Strangers in Light Coats

Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire

but what it does to and for people outside traditional literary spaces

disjointed

In Een mogelijk begin van veel weerklinkt een veelstemmig geluid uit het hedendaagse poëzielandschap

Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson

Two sonnet sequences interrupt Barbie Chang’s narrative with first-person lyricism and urgency

on the margins of a burning forest

as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war

An inevitably indirect

each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember'

Made of the reaction between the poet's material reality and subjective emotional experience

known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry