The Book of Advice Toen ik klein was was ik niet bang "From all these refusals

"From all these refusals

Concordance was brought out in an edition of thirty by Anne McKeown of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper in an accordion format

Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) is een van de belangrijkste twintigste-eeuwse Nederlandse dichters en wordt gezien als de grondlegger van onze moderne poëzie

philosophical and obscene

Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream-blocks

The Book of Advice Toen ik klein was was ik niet bang "From all these refusalsGhazal Mosadeq The Book of Advice, an experiment in self translation, stems from the andarznameh tradition of classical Persian literature, a form that moves between verse and prose as it engages invented or familiar sayings and folktales. Originally written in Persian between 2018 2020, the book now speaks in both English and Persian, opening at once from the back and the front, in a voice both distanced and familiar. The vicissitudes of the everyday