NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori’s new

Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori’s new translations of Rumi as “the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text

Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it

holding us in the complex coordinates of eros and education

1840 to 2206 from the year 2023

NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori’s newFrom the press: I thanked the man and left the store and confetti fell slowly inside my heart. Ben is adrift. A fact checker at a New York gossip magazine, he is well versed in the breezy cruelty that makes the modern world go and yet hopelessly drawn to the wonders that world continues to turn up. The hypnotic asymmetry of escalators. A perfectly chilled water fountain. The essential freedom of dogs. Into the stream of this private joy steps a young