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jamjunrb's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
These queer Iranian divinely devotional poems are a sacred blessing to us all! Khajavi harmonies humor, wordplay/perversion, romanticism, and potent tenderness in an incredibly crafty and cunning way. Their subversive songs have deep roots, lineages, and histories brought to life with playful political posturings. There is so much layering happening in an immersively sensual way that pushes pleasure to its farthest self, nearly to the point of overstimulation (edging us with gluttony!) So so marvelous and delightful to read, particularly as a brown queer (post/adjacent) spiritual person. Love love love love
casparb's review
& super neat formal dribbling, the metrics, riffing, a real fancy take - a run - on the ghazal in this which is about the best I've ever felt experiencing it,maybe in British poetry it's viewed more as gimmick & so treated that way even when there's an imagined respect. but jahan's doing lovely work there & I'll be back to study . queer as . donne nod in the final poem, the booty hole
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