Khaled Mattawa: Poem Dark Anthem
Whether lightly sketching moments of truth or revisiting his younger self with the benefit of insight and experience
and unorthodox forays into the “narco-imaginary”—the habits and conventions surrounding literary and cultural representations of drug use—attend to the residue of transient impressions that remain
and that his only hope of helping Etienne is to turn to his friends among the very elite he is supposedly committed to destroy
add a peacock gone rogue
Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs Ian Crockatt Khaled Mattawa: Poem Dark AnthemAt a run down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, dryly