{"id":1373,"date":"2017-05-26T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?post_type=product&p=1373"},"modified":"2024-01-12T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T05:49:33","slug":"this-version-of-earth-by-soraya-shalforoosh","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/product\/this-version-of-earth-by-soraya-shalforoosh\/","title":{"rendered":"This Version of Earth<\/em>, Soraya Shalforoosh"},"content":{"rendered":"

These \u201cbig themes\u201d rest quietly within Soraya Shalforoosh\u2019s uniquely charming poems, where office friendships, births, marriages, and deaths take place in the still-thrilling city and in this poet\u2019s always clear, always loving, constantly surprised and surprising imagination. Bracing as any New York novel, these poems sing the right-here, right-now.
\n\u2014Kathleen Ossip<\/p>\n

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The suddenness with which her poems seem to come into being\u2014dashed on the go, \u00e0 la the O\u2019Hara lunch poem\u2014can be exhilarating.
\n\u2014David Trinidad<\/p>\n

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“Will you take me as your hostage, I can arrange it”\u00a0\u00a0 Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLynne will not contribute to the office lotto pool\/She needs to save her singles for strippers\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ocean<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mom. When I think of you I usually think of the stars, sky, that you\u2019re
\n\u201cout there\u201d somewhere. And this week when drifting to sleep, I thought
\nof the ocean instead, that I would meet you,
\nagain in the ocean tides, that we would rise up and down together,
\nsunlight would shine over us, whether we are amoebas, or fish darting
\nthrough coral, maybe dolphins? That we would be splashing, or maybe
\nin splashes, or splashes themselves\u2014maybe we\u2019d be the Ocean and
\nembrace all limbs with a foam that sticks, a foam that kisses sand,
\nseashells that are picked over by birds and maybe the sound of little
\npink shells rattling on the surf is your call.<\/p>\n

It is raining on this version of earth; I accidentally stepped into a sooty
\npuddle.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll take what I can get.<\/p>\n

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\nDad Was Home for Weeks Recovering<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sitting in the recliner, you seemed so much smaller, watching game
\nshows with spinning wheels and jumping moms with bad perms. You
\nagreed to be Charlie as in Charlie\u2019s Angels as we ran around the rooms.
\nI was Sabrina, of course. Kim was Kelly. With our walkie-talkies and
\nimaginary guns we were going after a bad guy.<\/p>\n

Was it 1979 or 1980 when two men held you upside down in a bar
\nwhile the third punched. \u201cFucking Iranian.\u201d Broken ribs, broken
\neverything but spirit. How did you do it Dad? Not get bitter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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