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- English
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Afterwardness
About this book
A 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019
Ever since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In Afterwardness its pull became irresistible. She has created in this unprogrammatic series, mixing memory, history, daily life, all her intersecting geographies and cultures, a self-portrait in all her moods, anxieties and delights. The sonnet form is stretched in all sorts of fruitful directions. Just as she adapted the ghazal form to English use, here she puts the Petrarchan sonnet to striking, unfamiliar use, widening the possibilities of the form. The poems are rich with Khalvati's personal history, her Iranian origins, her long years in Great Britain. The poems play between cultures, ancestral and acquired.
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CONTENTS
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Questions
- Translation
- Handwriting
- Dictation
- Elocution
- Background Music
- Background Music (ii)
- Dreamers
- Afterwardness
- Scripto Inferior
- CafƩs
- Jolanta
- The Brag
- Hide And Seek
- The Introvert House
- Outpatients
- Villajoyosa
- The Boy
- Dysphagia
- The Artist as a Child
- The Lesser Brethren
- Torbay
- Maria
- Old Stamping Grounds
- Chamaeleonidae
- The Colours My Mother Wore
- My Motherās Lighter
- My Motherās Portrait
- The Courtyard
- Twelve
- Very
- Bush Cricket
- Reading under Trees
- Postcard from Crete ...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Questions
- Translation
- Handwriting
- Dictation
- Elocution
- Background Music
- Background Music (ii)
- Dreamers
- Afterwardness
- Scripto Inferior
- CafƩs
- Jolanta
- The Brag
- Hide And Seek
- The Introvert House
- Outpatients
- Villajoyosa
- The Boy
- Dysphagia
- The Artist as a Child
- The Lesser Brethren
- Torbay
- Maria
- Old Stamping Grounds
- Chamaeleonidae
- The Colours My Mother Wore
- My Motherās Lighter
- My Motherās Portrait
- The Courtyard
- Twelve
- Very
- Bush Cricket
- Reading under Trees
- Postcard from Crete
- The Street
- Friends House
- The Older Reader
- The Living Room
- Life Writing
- Eggs
- September
- The Ice Rink
- In Praise of the Sestet
- Night Writing
- āPetites Salissuresā
- One Summer Holiday
- Facades
- Physiognomy
- Smiles
- Homa
- My Sixth Birthday Party
- Junior School Production
- Azarinejad and Bear
- Mehrabad Airport
- Mehrabad Airport (ii)
- Vapour Trails
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright