High Desert

High Desert
Andre Naffis-Sahely
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23 Jun 2022 UK
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9781780376202
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High Desert is an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast' s wildfire epidemic. This is Naffis-Sahely' s second collection, a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travelers, laborers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his recent pamphlet The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books, 2019). Like all of his work, this books presents poetry as reportage, with reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the region' s hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. These poems revel in their rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US, traveling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St Petersburg, tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its problems in searing, extraordinary poems of witness and vision.
Naffis-Sahely' s desert is a space for reckoning. Not many poets have the courage to begin a book with a poem titled ' The Last Communist' , in praise of a wounded and much-needed, though endangered species of thinker and doer in these acquisitive times. He reminds us of the work that poetry can do when properly deployed. -- Fred D' Aguiar Andre Naffis-Sahely' s High Desert radically presents an intensive record of capitalism' s complex forms of local and global enslavements, each poem skillfully and precisely formed, emotionally charged, and morally infused with an acute sense of justice. High Desert places Naffis-Sahely among our most indispensable poets, those who, throughout history, testify to the truths of poetry against the lies of violent, destructive, corrupt, oligarchic power. -- Lawrence Joseph * author of A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems (FSG, 2020) * Naffis-Sahely' s poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk. . . His narratives hold memory to account. -- David Harsent * on The Promised Land * I much admired Andre Naffis-Sahely' s sharp meditations on our vast but remarkably homogeneous global landscape. -- Pankaj Mishra * on The Promised Land *
Andre Naffis-Sahely is a poet, editor and translator whose many publications include two collections, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin Books, 2017) and High Desert (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), and a pamphlet, The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books, 2019). He edited The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (2020) and is editor of Poetry London. He has translated over twenty titles of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, including works by Honore de Balzac, Emile Zola, Alessandro Spina, Abdellatif Laabi, Franketienne, Ribka Sibhatu and Tahar Ben Jelloun. Several of these titles were selected as ' books of the year' by NPR, The Guardian and Financial Times. He grew up in Abu Dhabi, but was born in Venice to an Iranian father and an Italian mother. He has taught at Whittier College, Occidental College, and University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the Author in Residence. He is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Manchester Writing School in the UK, and a Lecturer at University of California, Davis in the US.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781780376202
Published: 23 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine: 8mm
Pages: 80

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