YOUR COUNTRY IS GREAT: Afghanistan-Guyana
Ara Shirinyan Futurepoem ($15) by Katie Fowley Ara Shirinyan’s Your Country is Great: Afghanistan—Guyana is an exercise in how to say nothing about a place—a testament to the self-defeating potential of descriptive language. Take, for example, these lines about Germany: “The atmosphere in Germany is great / and it’s just like Africa here—” or these lines about […]