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<p><i>Farhang </i>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, <i>Farhang</i> 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, archit
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Farhang
by Patrick Woodcock
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In stock Published: 05-09-2023£10.99More info -
You Can't Bury Them All
by Patrick Woodcock
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In stock Published: 01-04-2016£8.99More info -
Always Die Before Your Mother
by Patrick Woodcock
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In stock Published: 01-10-2013£5.99More info -
Echo Gods And Silent Mountains
by Patrick Woodcock
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In stock Published: 11-06-2012£8.99More info -
Always Die Before Your Mother
by Patrick Woodcock
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In stock Published: 01-04-2009£5.99More info
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