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Posts by: Mandana Chaffa

Both Microscope and Telescope: The Absurd Man by Major Jackson

By Mandana Chaffa

August 20th, 2021

The Absurd Man is confident and daring with a muscular specificity of language that is both deeply resonant for a wide audience and also singular to the poet.

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Tags: albert camus, book review, Major Jackson, Mandana Chaffa, poems, poetry, poetry review, review, The Absurd Man

Wistful Intimacies: Homie by Danez Smith

By Mandana Chaffa

November 6th, 2020

Could I be one of Smith’s homies? I would like to be.

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Tags: book review, community, Danez Smith, graywolf, graywolf press, Homie, language, Mandana Chaffa, poems, poetry, poetry review, review

A Deeper Narrative: Tongo Eisen-Martin’s Heaven Is All Goodbyes

By Mandana Chaffa

August 28th, 2020

These are not poems to read quickly, but to return to repeatedly.

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Tags: activism, Audre Lord, Bay Area, Bob Kaufman, book review, capitalism, City Lights, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, James Baldwin, Mandana Chaffa, Miles Davis, poems, poetry, poetry review, racial inequality, Racism, review, San Francisco, slavery, systemic inequality, systemic racism, Tongo Eisen-Martin

Mandana Chaffa is founder and editor-in-chief of Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters, and editor and senior strategist at Chicago Review of Books. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in several anthologies, as well as in the Ploughshares blog, Chicago Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She was named a 2021-2022 Emerging Critics Fellow by the National Book Critics Circle. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York.

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