Lean Against This Late Hour

Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation  A vivid, "mesmerizing" ( New York Times Magazine ) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they