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Dear Jean, In your novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), you seem to be holding up a distorting mirror to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847): if we look…… Read more “The sky was red and all my life was in it.”
Month: January 2018
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys (born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British-Dominican writer. She was born and grew up in Dominica, and moved…… Read more “Jean Rhys”
I keep dreaming I’m a creature pulling out my claws one by one
Three poems by Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar, from the book Calling a Wolf a Wolf (2017): * Soot Sometimes God comes to earth disguised as rust, chewing…… Read more “I keep dreaming I’m a creature pulling out my claws one by one”
Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar (Iran, 1989) is an Iranian-American poet. He earned his MFA from Butler University, and his PhD in Creative Writing and Philosophy from Florida State University. In 2014, he founded…… Read more “Kaveh Akbar”
