Calling – Poetry

A journey through a terrain that is intimate and political -
hopefully bitter, wonderfully angry,
tenderly scorching through a charred wasteland.

Ehsan's voice speaks of the political contradictions of poetic language, human desires and our ability to destroy. Ehsan's language is regimented in its sparseness, full of emotion and hitting you in the stomach. What holds these poems together is the poet's journey through the many perspectives of love, boredom and war, children and parents out of reach, violent desolation of human relationships, tenderness and migration. Language itself is an actor in these poems, it delivers, undercuts, translates, mutates, sets sentences and sometimes fails to "deliver the pieces to complete the sentence…"

Excerpt from the book

YESTERDAY YOU STRODE

torch-handed

through the woods

today only the

smoke can recall

the charred branches

the rubble field

of your footprints

your track,

Who would want to

retrace this path

to behold

the trench out of which

you crawled?

Burnt feathers

and

thirst

are your

memento

GESTERN ZOGST

du fackelbehändet

durch den Wald

heute erinnert nur

noch der Rauch die verkohlten Äste

das Trümmerfeld

deiner Fußtapfen

an deinen Pfad,

Wer möchte diesen

Weg zurückwandern

um den Graben

aus dem du

entstiegen bist

zu betrachten?

Verbrannte Federn

und

Durst

sind dein

Angedenk

Further Information

Author Sara Ehsan

Reading Sample

VLB-TIX

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