回 / Return Stephen Nashef

回 / Return Stephen NashefRooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese reversible poem, Return is engaged in the act of looking backtoward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?

The three plays which make up A Female Scene illustrate beautifully the new direction in Catalan drama where the more feminine values of fluidity

and the Oval Office itself

the search for asylum

intense poems that draw us into a world where actuality and dream

It is poetry written for the mouth

America and Israel and chronicling the struggles and enmities of the ‘Peoples of the Book’

The stories in this collection represent the best of some five hundred postcard stories Jan has written since

from the 1980s to the present day

insights that are often underlaid by a sense of life's constant ability to extend beyond the present in the direction of its beginning and its end

to life in Madrid

While regional crime novels go back to The Hound of the Baskervilles

” Vi Läser First published in 1999