High Desert by Naffis-Sahely, André
High Desert by Naffis-Sahely, André

High Desert

High Desert is an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red...
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Author: André Naffis-Sahely
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Language: English
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High Desert by Naffis-Sahely, André

High Desert

CHF 22.65
High Desert by Naffis-Sahely, André

High Desert

CHF 22.65
Author: André Naffis-Sahely
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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High Desert is an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire epidemic.

Naffis-Sahely's reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the region's hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the current pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US, traveling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St Petersburg, tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its problems in searing, extraordinary poems of witness and vision.

This is Naffis-Sahely's second collection, following his debut, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017), a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travelers, laborers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his recent pamphlet The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books, 2019). All his collections present poetry as reportage, as much an act of memory as of sinuous, clear-eyed vision. High Desert was named as one of the '20 best poetry books of 2022' in The Telegraph.



Author: André Naffis-Sahely
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 08/30/2022
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781780376202


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2022

About the Author
André Naffis-Sahely is a poet, editor and translator whose many publications include two collections, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin Books, 2017) and High Desert (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), and a pamphlet, The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books, 2019). He edited The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (2020) and is editor of Poetry London. He has translated over twenty titles of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, including works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Alessandro Spina, Abdellatif Laâbi, Frankétienne, Ribka Sibhatu and Tahar Ben Jelloun. Several of these titles were selected as 'books of the year' by NPR, The Guardian and Financial Times. He grew up in Abu Dhabi, but was born in Venice to an Iranian father and an Italian mother. He has taught at Whittier College, Occidental College, and University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the Author in Residence. He is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Manchester Writing School in the UK, and a Lecturer at University of California, Davis in the US.
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