Selected Poems: Mimi Khalvati

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 va