Self-Mythology by Saba Keramati Don Paterson the lexicon of Andrew Marvell's

the lexicon of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' is repurposed to enact the collapse of language under the strain of description punctuated by scalding direct statement

Laura Ring

The book's energy flows out into other lives

and run parallel to his highly praised volumes of memoirs

Self-Mythology by Saba Keramati Don Paterson the lexicon of Andrew Marvell'sIn the search for a true home, what does it mean to be confronted instead by an insurmountable sense of otherness? This question dwells at the center of Saba Keramati's Self Mythology, which explores multiraciality and the legacy of exile alongside the poet's uniquely American origin as the only child of political refugees from China and Iran. Keramati navigates her ancestral past while asking what language and poetry can offer to those who exist on