Lean Against This Late Hour (Penguin Poets)

The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, Lean Against This Late Hour is a vivid, mesmerizing portrait of life int he shadow of violence and loss. These poems witness the troubling effects of grief and memory, but remain alive to other ways of being and seeing. Abdolmalekian illuminates the images we conjure in the face of abandonment and ruin, and finds them by turns gripping, ethereal, and defiant.