news | Wednesday December 3, 2025
rob mclennan reviews The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. mclennan calls the collection “Compelling … furthering a lineage of literary works that seek to provide a perspective that counterpoints and contradicts the male gaze … Kurd articulates a lineage of Persian language and culture, one that moves across centuries of lyric thought … allowing her Zulaykha her own thoughts, her own history, wants, and desires.”
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