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White Blight
Vitsvit
Athena Farrokhzad (born 1983)
Translated by Jennifer Hayashida
English editions
In EnglishWhite Blight
Argos Books · United States · 2015 · 70 pages
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A family shaped by revolution and flight speaks in clipped sentences, each member blaming or shielding the poem's 'I' in turn, while she herself appears only through what she lets them say. Working like a chorus, the poem keeps origin and guilt unresolved and circles back, again and again, to the harsh terms that oppression sets.
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About the book
- Form
- Poetry
- Length
- 70 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, Family, Politics (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2013 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
- Author's age
- 30 when first published
- ISBN
9789100131142 (original)
9781938247217 (Argos Books, United States)
- More
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