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CAIRO the undelivered letters: the undelivered letters: the undelivered letters: the undelivered letters
Paperback
Publisher Price: $13.00
ISBN13: 9786338295042
Publisher: Diwan Books
Published: May 25 2025
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In CAIRO: the undelivered letters, the city speaks-but only through those the world forgets. Framed as a haunting series of letters to an absent editor at Al-Ahram Newspaper's Friday Mail, this extraordinary poetry collection refracts the lives of Cairo's demimonde through a surreal, shimmering lens. From flooded basements to rooftop vigils, from broken radios to whispered revolutions, each plea is a cracked mirror reflecting a city unraveling and remaking itself in silence. In the void where replies should be, CAIRO: the undelivered letters dares to imagine that even unread voices echo-tender, urgent, and impossible to ignore.
I could not help but think of Jack Spicer's After Lorca, another brilliant book of epistolary poems while reading CAIRO: the undelivered letters; and what Spicer says of perfect poetry, that it 'has infinitely small vocabulary.'
-Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars (New Directions, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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