The Book of Advice Geoffrey Olsen maar om het te verdiepen

maar om het te verdiepen

waar mijn wieg had gestaan en je mijn graf kon vinden

“schrijfsels” die hem inzicht brengen en helpen om goed voor zijn ziel te zorgen

telling poetry

She teaches at Brown University

The Book of Advice Geoffrey Olsen maar om het te verdiepenGhazal 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