Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
PBS Winter Wild Card 2019 Offord Road Books ”… Cosmonauts

”… Cosmonauts

Cold War thriller

whose mouth "holds more wonder than a sky full of stars"

The Guardian described Terror

Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati <b><br>PBS Winter Wild Card 2019</b> Offord Road Books ”… CosmonautsEver since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In Afterwardness its pull became irresistible. She has created in this unprogrammatic series, mixing memory, history, daily life, all her intersecting geographies and cultures, a self portrait in all her moods, anxieties and delights. The sonnet form is stretched in all sorts of fruitful directions. Just as she adapted the ghazal form to English