Jason Rezaian, Prisoner (thinking of my last trip to Iran in 2016). Would love to write about him someday)Ĭharlotte Bronte, The Professor (am working on an essay about this book and Bronte in Belgium)įriedrich Holderlin, Letters and Essays (brilliantly translated by Richard Sieburth) Richard Yates, Disturbing the Peace (the more I read by Yates, the more awed I am. Richard Yates, The Easter Parade (Always stunned by the brilliance of this underrated novelist.) Zadie Smith, On Beauty (great bathtub reading!) Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004)Įngels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884)Įavan Boland, Domestic Violence (reading in honor of the poet’s passing in April)
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Reminds me that there were so many facets to Said not represented by the polemical Orientalism.įor Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech Rereading this remarkable essay.Įdward Said, On Late Style. Nietzsche, “The Uses and Abuses of History for Life” (1873). An historical novel about Rumi and Shams Tabrizi. A brilliant chronicle of the aftermath of the Iranian revolution for Iranians abroad and in Iran.Īndrew March’s The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (Harvard UP, 2019)Įlif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love. This magnificent work was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry.ĭalia Sofer, Man of My Time. Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine (Alice James Books, 2012)Īgha Shahid Ali, Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems (2001). Marina Tsvetaeva, Dark Elderberry Branch, trans. Geoffrey Squires (Miami University Press, 2014) Hafez: Translations and Interpretations of the Ghazals, trans. I have written up my impressions of this book here, and have also created a video review of the book. Nathaniel Tarn, The Hölderliniae (New Directions, 2021) I was lucky enough to get access to this two months prior to publication. Here is my video review of Almontaser’s book: You can read my review of this collection here.
Threa Almontaser’s The Wild Fox of Yemen (2021), an exciting debut collection by a Yemeni-American poet. A classic text by a masterful translator. Ibn Arabi, Translator of Desires, translated from the Arabic by Michael Sells. But it is highly recommended! You can read my review of the collection here. I had some questions about the co-authorial relation that remained unanswered by the end. This is an innovative collection, that brings together different voices into a visual collage of Damascus during war.
Marie Silkeberg, Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems.Translated from the Swedish by Kelsi Vanada. Update: As poetry book reviewer for Harriet, the blog of The Poetry Foundation, expect a lot more about poetry in the upcoming months!
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For more detailed discussion of specific books, you can consult my YouTube series of reviews of new poetry boo ks. Some highlights of my reading are logged below. My reading ranges from literature to political theory, Islam.
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