End Of The City Map by Farhad Showghi and translated by Harry Roddy

This is poetry from Germany.

End Of The City Map by Farhad Showghi translated by Harry Roddy is published by Burning Deck. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781936194162E12.

Farhad Showghi’s End Of The City Map, translated from German by Harry Roddy, brings poetry connected to Germany into English through urban edges, maps, disorientation, and the failure of coordinates. I would not stop at the biographical or national frame, even when those contexts matter. The better entrance is through the poem’s pressure: the image that will not sit still, the phrase that feels slightly denser than ordinary speech, the moment where feeling outruns explanation. This description should help a reader know why the book belongs on the shelf without pretending the book has been solved in advance. End Of The City Map feels useful for readers who want translated poetry to widen not only what they know, but how they listen.

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