{"id":33116,"date":"2024-05-08T15:54:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T13:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?p=33116"},"modified":"2024-05-10T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:03:35","slug":"poet-sahar-muradi-presents-two-poems-from-octobers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/poet-sahar-muradi-presents-two-poems-from-octobers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahar Muradi presents two poems from OCTOBERS<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

OCTOBERS<\/i>\u00a0traces the four great tumults of the author\u2019s life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter. The poems chart heartbreak along a helix, progressively and recursively, where \u201cechoes are inevitable.\u201d Ultimately, the collection is concerned with language\u2014as witness and buoy in the white waters of loss, as a tool for violences small and state-crafted, as an asymptote both approaching ideas of \u201chome\u201d and estranged from it, and, beyond it all and still, as a source of wild wonder.<\/p>\n

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