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Selected Poems

Year

2012

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

This collection of selected poems draws on her three Carcanet works: In White Ink, Mirrorwork, and Entries on Light. It provides us with the essential Khalvati, from the ambitiously wrought early formal poems, full of Persian and personal shadows, through to the meditations in the long sequence Entries on Light. She brings into English poetry distinct formal and tonal elements of Persian and Islamic provenance. A mature eroticism marks her poems; also, a feeling for nature in all its varieties.

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