The Book of Advice Format:Paperback Curse of The Birds evokes

Curse of The Birds evokes a world of myth and dark energies

Arabic literature will always need a magazine like Banipal

Crossing paths among a gathering of self-exiled intellectuals living among the cool mountains

What the bearers of meaning do not say

and poetry with a strong sense of story

The Book of Advice Format:Paperback Curse of The Birds evokesThe Book of Advice, an experiment in self translation, stems from the andarznameh tradition of classical Persian literature, a form that moves between verse and prose as it engages invented or familiar sayings and folktales. Originally written in Persian between 2018 2020, the book now speaks in both English and Persian, opening at once from the back and the front, in a voice both distanced and familiar. The vicissitudes of the everyday preoccupy its