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In The Book of Interruptions Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi has brought together a collection of poems written with scalpel-like precision. Infused with “pre-emptive violence” these poems mark the intersection of war, immigration, sexuality and history, with lines often placed at the crossroads of Perso-Islamic and Western thought. Moving between an Iran that is marked with “tulips from the martyr’s blood” and Toronto, a city that is always screaming but where the author is a “ghost, anecdotal,” Mohammadi writes unflinchingly of the reality that faces them and others like them who straddle two worlds. But within this fierce collection there is also room for art, and for pleasure, and for words that invite us all with “gentle patterns of light against light against light.”

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""WJD brings together a gradient of cultural shades that evade any attempt at separation. The poetry is holistic, introducing the oeuvre of Rumi to the ontology of the 21st century. Through an intense examination of psychosis and Sufism (sometimes related, sometimes not), Mohammadi's work presents something simultaneously momentous and haunting."" - Acta Victoriana ""I recommend the transformative journey which is Me, You, Then Snow. Khashayar Mohammadi's collection is a feast of raw, passionate, unflinching poems."" - Kate Rogers - League of Canadian Poets ""Much like its title, the poems in Khashayar Mohammadi's debut poetry collection, Me, You, Then Snow, drift between intimate relationality and the imagistic, which often emerge by way of surprising turns."" - Prathna Lor - Shrapnel ""Set as an assemblage of slightly surreal first-person observations, musings and commentaries, Daffod*ls is a book-length lyric suite across more than a hundred pages of sweep and nuance, offering an expansive gesture into history, time and language."" - rob mclennan - rob mclennan's blog

""WJD brings together a gradient of cultural shades that evade any attempt at separation. The poetry is holistic, introducing the oeuvre of Rumi to the ontology of the 21st century. Through an intense examination of psychosis and Sufism (sometimes related, sometimes not), Mohammadi's work presents something simultaneously momentous and haunting."" -- ""Acta Victoriana"" ""I recommend the transformative journey which is Me, You, Then Snow. Khashayar Mohammadi's collection is a feast of raw, passionate, unflinching poems."" --Kate Rogers ""League of Canadian Poets"" ""Much like its title, the poems in Khashayar Mohammadi's debut poetry collection, Me, You, Then Snow, drift between intimate relationality and the imagistic, which often emerge by way of surprising turns."" --Prathna Lor ""Shrapnel"" ""Set as an assemblage of slightly surreal first-person observations, musings and commentaries, Daffod*ls is a book-length lyric suite across more than a hundred pages of sweep and nuance, offering an expansive gesture into history, time and language."" --rob mclennan ""rob mclennan's blog""

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Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi (they/them) is a queer, Iranian-born, Toronto-based poet, writer and translator. They are the winner of the 2021 Vallum Poetry Award and the author of nine chapbooks of poetry. The Book of Interruptions is their fifth poetry book.

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