Mahmood Falaki writes poetically about being a stranger, about searching and finding and about memories. The poems make it clear what it means to live in a foreign country and to constantly have to reinvent yourself. The Poetry Book Sound from afar and rocks by the Iranian author Mahmood Falaki was created in collaboration with the Armenian artist Marietta Armena, whose illustrations underscore Falaki's poems.

"Niemandsländische Sprache

i am a word
that lost its sentence.

Since my birth
am I a traveler
always in no-man's-land language
has landed.

i am a word
that lost its sentence;
a paradigmatic being,
looking for its syntagma.
I am a signifier
ohne Signifié."

Mahmood Falaki

lyric | 2nd edition 2013 | soft cover | 73 pages