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).
Illustration by Elyas Alavi from the series Waking DreamsTranslator’s note: Few voices are more distinctive in the world of contemporary Afghan poetry than Elyas Alavi. The...
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...