Description

footnotes and paper bags
by Amir Shaheen

On the occasion of his 50th birthday, the poet Amir Shaheen takes stock and publishes 100 poems from 25 years. In addition to new texts published here for the first time, the collection mainly includes poems from Shaheen's first three volumes of poetry, which have long been out of print and are now accessible again. The volume comes with a CD on which Shaheen has narrated 30 of the poems in the volume and a bonus text.

Reviews and press

Fixpoetrty:

Shaheen's verses follow a slow beat of sleepless nights, listening to every single tram pass by the window and pondering every single life they transport somewhere. (...) more

– Gerrit Wustmann