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In his bildungsroman, the “People’s Poet of Azerbaijan” describes a time when “all the world smelled of bread.”
I’d taken…
Alison Mandaville
A simurgh (a monstrous mythical bird with the power of reasoning and speech). From Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, by al-Qazwīnī (d. 1283/682). Courtesy o…
Photo: Clarissa BellTo the Children of WarMornings, they run from the dark along the length of the seashore.Like an iron sword beaten by a blacksmith, the sun reddensas their feet strike the ground.So…
