Ardour: Poems from the Daud Carlos Soto Roman just verbal streetlife in the

just verbal streetlife in the common wind repeating: wordtomydead

Robertson is compelled towards the construction of the textual subjectivity these authors convey--a subjectivity that honours all the ambivalence

Moments of political and spiritual convergence

The whole is never the sum of its parts

Kan iemand die slaapt eigenlijk wel schrijven

Ardour: Poems from the Daud Carlos Soto Roman just verbal streetlife in theMatthew Rana Ardour is a dialogue with Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalibs (c. 17971869) Urdu Divan. Addressing a beloved in whose name it is also inscribed, Ardour is a cry of intimacy and separation resonant with the affective intensities of form. It is the latest instalment of Ranas serial poem The Daud, an inquiry into Urdu poetry and the ghazal, ongoing since 2003.