The Book of Advice Sandrine Verstraete Hélène Bessette unleashes a polyphonic

Hélène Bessette unleashes a polyphonic investigation

Poems beget poems

want hij voert dwars door ons dagelijks leven

This volume—rich

which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous

The Book of Advice Sandrine Verstraete Hélène Bessette unleashes a polyphonicGhazal Mosadeq The Book of Advice, an experiment in self translation, stems from the andarznameh tradition of classical Persian literature, a form that moves between verse and prose as it engages invented or familiar sayings and folktales. Originally written in Persian between 2018 2020, the book now speaks in both English and Persian, opening at once from the back and the front, in a voice both distanced and familiar. The vicissitudes of the everyday