Postcards from the Underworld Social Poetics Love is a many-headed snake

Love is a many-headed snake in Nisha Ramayya's debut poetry collection

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Ardour is a cry of intimacy and separation resonant with the affective intensities of form

his primary focus was on how to live and love in the present moment despite the enduring difficulties of human history

Contributors include Daniel Borzutzky

Postcards from the Underworld Social Poetics Love is a many-headed snakeSinan Antoon To confront time, pre modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloveds home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two warsthe Iran Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoons