Leonard Schwartz

Leonard Schwartz’s recent books include The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (University of Arkansas Press) and Heavy Sublimation (Talisman House).

Two Persian Poems from Afghanistan

By Elyas Alavi

Spring 2020
Elyas Alavi

Illustration by Elyas Alavi from the series Waking Dreams Translator’s note: Few voices are more distinctive in the world of contemporary Afghan poetry than Elyas Alavi. The...
Finger in the Operating Room

By Fatemeh Shams

Autumn 2019
Fatemeh Shams

They had to remove it and off we went: A transparent image of bones chained together; Half face, three-quarters, full face of the fingers stretched out, fingers without recognizable lines, i...