Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
PBS Winter Wild Card 2019 Offord Road Books It’s a real treat discovering

It’s a real treat discovering long lost Neruda poems that do not disappoint

Cavalcanti

from a mid-life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future

”… Cosmonauts

While Walker tries to piece his life together

Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati <b><br>PBS Winter Wild Card 2019</b> Offord Road Books It’s a real treat discoveringEver 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