WJD
- Publisher
- Gordon Hill Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2022
- Category
- General, Middle Eastern, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781774220702
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
- List Price
- $20.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781774220726
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
- List Price
- $10.00
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Description
WJD is an irreverent phenomenology of West-Asia, where Islamicate consciousness is driven in and out of a plethora of conflicting ideologies and has left an impression deep enough to be read across the centuries. It also includes The OceanDweller, a translation of Saeed Tavanaee Marvi's experimental tale of the power of poetry dipped in marine biology and shades of astronomy.
The two volumes are printed together, one beginning from each side, with its own cover, making a unique and beautiful book.
About the author
Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi (They/Them) is a queer, Iranian born, Toronto-based poet, writer and translator. They were shortlisted for the 2021 Austin Clarke Prize in poetry and are the winner of the Vallum Poetry Prize 2021 and author of Five poetry chapbooks. Their debut poetry collection, Me, You, Then Snow, came out with Gordon Hill Press in 2021. WJD is their second poetry book, was published by Gordon Hill Press in fall of 2022. They have a collaborative poetry book forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in fall 2023.