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Farhang: Book One

Farhang: Book One

Woodcock, Patrick

Paperback

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1770417516
ISBN13: 9781770417519
Publisher: Misfit Book
Published: Sep 5 2023
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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His distinctive voice makes him a unique writer working in the contemporary landscape. No one celebrates life and eulogies death as well as the Canadian poet Patrick Woodcock. Farhang Book One is a must-read for anyone interested in the state of the world and the art of poetry. -- Emir Salihovic, Phenomenology Literary Journal, Serbia

Farhang honors the people, places, and things Patrick Woodcock has seen while working as a migrant writer, volunteer, and teacher for almost three decades. This book is the first of three that will celebrate, memorialize, or eulogize the myriad moments that impacted his life while also shaping the shade and content of his writing. Beginning in Poland in 1994 and ending in the hamlet of Paulatuk in the Northwest Territories in 2022, Farhang travels the globe through Lithuania, Russia, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, the Kurdish North of Iraq, Azerbaijan, Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda. From the salt mines in Wieliczka to the dirt paths to the Baraa government school in Tanzania, where he volunteered, Woodcock has tried to honor the moment before it becomes muddled, dulled, or romanticized. Some of the poems are about friends or students, others are about the cracked knuckles of strangers, the crawling and the abandoned. Art, language, architecture, politics, and the suffering from politicians left unchecked are also a focus. Sadly, many of the poems are for friends and locations lost to either time, neglect, or warfare. Farhang tries to chronicle some of what no longer exists or only lives on in the poet's head and soul.

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