The Book of Advice Sandrine Verstraete playing on traditions of travel

playing on traditions of travel and nature writing

which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous

This volume also includes four poems written for the collection but ultimately omitted

the music of Neutral Milk Hotel)

Hélène Bessette unleashes a polyphonic investigation

The Book of Advice Sandrine Verstraete playing on traditions of travelGhazal 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