Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Pavilion Poetry and those who simply did

and those who simply did not fit anywhere else

Finland and Cologne

Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems is the only book-length collection of Mir's poetry in English translation

and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light

Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Pavilion Poetry and those who simply didComplex, melancholic, and sensual, the late Shereen Akhtars Rabbi Robin is at a continuous crossroads of reckoning with queer, interfaith love, addiction and channeling the expansion of this mysterious darkness and light, in which the speaker invites us to kiss the calligraphy on her skin too holy to touch. The words burn. The words are moot. But Akhtars words themselves ask the reader to give so much more of themselves, to consider and make real a