Postcards from the Underworld Alara Adilow Ward often betrays the procedural

Ward often betrays the procedural forms he tries to impose on his labyrinthine ruminations in order to remain faithfully engaged to the traditional task of the post-Romantic poet

" The lyric mode of A Reaction to Someone Coming In is intimate like an appendectomy is intimate

hoogst actueel en tegelijk tijdloos

Originally published in 1973 by poet and translator David Rosenberg in The Ant's Forefoot chapbook series

Postcards from the Underworld Alara Adilow Ward often betrays the proceduralSinan Antoon To confront time, pre modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloveds home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two warsthe Iran Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoons