A review by balletbookworm
Standing on Earth by Mohsen Emadi

4.0

A beautifully written and translated collection of poems centered on loss and displacement. While you could read "the lover" invoked throughout as an actual person - and may, in some instances, be referencing someone specific - I feel like the poet means to reference country and culture. The speaker has been forcibly removed from his culture and so mourns it like a lost lover.

Read for the 2017 Read Harder challenge.