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This is a poem about duty; I’m quite pleased with the rhyme

This is a placard with a poem; hold it aloft

This is a tribute to conviction; it is no more violent than doubt

This is doubt; I have buried it beside the dog

In a collection of standalone poems that move between the rise of fascism, the salvation of rhythm and everyday life in the suburbs, Farrokhzad writes to and through the communities that have shaped her life and poetry. In movements between the individual and the collective, between tradition and renewal, between the grave seriousness and absurdity of the present, she proposes a poetry that seeks to be utilised without compromising on complexity, which addresses the grief over political orders, whilst seeing the outcome of history as something it is possible to intervene in. With an afterword by Lars Raattamaa.